{"id":5541,"date":"2025-07-23T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/kennedy-approves-acip-recommendation-thimerosal-removed-from-flu-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:00:03","slug":"kennedy-approves-acip-recommendation-thimerosal-removed-from-flu-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/kennedy-approves-acip-recommendation-thimerosal-removed-from-flu-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Secretary RFK Jr. accepts recommendations to drop thimerosal from U.S. flu vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    HHS Secretary RFK Jr. accepts recommendations to drop thimerosal from U.S. flu vaccines<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday formally accepted recommendations that would require all vaccine manufacturers to discontinue using the preservative thimerosal in influenza vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/press-room\/thimerosal-mercury-removed-from-us-flu-vaccines-acip.html\">statement issued by the department<\/a> on Wednesday called the move the fulfillment of \u201ca commitment to restore trust with Americans by removing risk while sustaining access to vaccines.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/23\/kennedy-approves-acip-recommendation-thimerosal-removed-from-flu-vaccines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/23\/kennedy-approves-acip-recommendation-thimerosal-removed-from-flu-vaccines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HHS Secretary RFK Jr. accepts recommendations to drop thimerosal from U.S. flu vaccines Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday formally accepted recommendations that would require all vaccine manufacturers to discontinue using the preservative thimerosal in influenza vaccines. A statement issued by the department on Wednesday called the move the fulfillment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,1428,2147,2179,2180,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-health","category-hhs","category-infectious-disease","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}