The CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee recommends against flu vaccines containing timerosal

The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP), composed of recently selected members by the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend against the flu vaccines containing the conservative couch.

A few moments earlier, the disease control and prevention vaccines advisory committee voted 6-0 to recommend all Americans 6 months or more receive an annual influenza vaccine.

A committee member, Vicky Pebsworth, abstained from each vote.

Timerosal is a mercury -based preservative, which is used to prevent microbial contamination of vaccines. Most flu vaccines currently used in the United States contain little or no thymus, but both the food and medication administration and CDC say there is no evidence of low doses of thimerosal in vaccines cause damage that are not minor reactions in the injection site, such as redness or swelling.

In addition, a 2010 CDC The study found that exposure to vaccines and immunoglobulins containing timerosal, in prenatal or childish stages, does not increase the risk of autistic spectrum disorder.

This preservative was previously used in some common immunizations of childhood, however, in the late 1990 Be the Thimerous groups are not safe and combined with speculation.

Kennedy, who has promoted the opinions of vaccines-skeptics-skeptic that experts and decades of robust research have refuted, wrote a book in 2014 falsely affirming that Thimerosal is “toxic to brain tissue” and can cause autism, asking for their elimination of all vaccines.

During the ACIP meeting, Lyn Redwood, former president of Children’s Health Defense, a group that used to be chaired by Kennedy, gave a highly accused presentation as a private citizen. She said that the preservative was toxic to the brain and refuted the evidence based on the evidence that there has been no damage proven by the thimerosal in the vaccines.

His presentation received the rejection of ACIP member, Dr. Cody Meissner, who was the only member who voted against the recommendation. He said that “there is no scientific evidence that the couch have caused problems.”

“The risk of influenza is much higher than the non -existent risk of the thimerosal,” he added.

Meissner said that vaccines with thimerosal are metabolized as ethylmercury, not methylmercury, which is the mercury shape found in fish and seafood, and it is known that it is a neurotoxin.

“I’m not very sure how to answer this presentation,” he said. “This is an ancient problem that has been addressed in the past. Ethhylmercury is excreted much faster from the body. It is not associated with the high neurotoxicity that methylmercury [is]”

Meissner also added that the thymerosal is included in most multiple doses vaccines administered worldwide because the unique dose roads are more expensive, and eliminating the thimerosal could increase vaccines costs.

“Timerosal is included in most vaccines that are administered throughout the world, and it is because the unique dose roads are more expensive, and many countries cannot afford a single dose road,” said Meissner.

He continued: “I realize that ACIP focuses on the United States, but the recommendations made by ACIP are followed among many countries around the world and will eliminate thimerosal from all vaccines that are used in other countries, for example, they will reduce access to these vaccines, the cost will increase.”

Multiple medical groups links in the committee also questioned at the meeting why Redwood was allowed to occur given his limited scientific background and retreated the lack of studies reviewed by peers in his presentation.

“This committee has always been proud of openness, transparency and data and evidence. Therefore, I wonder if we will have a real scientific presentation with the literature reviewed by peers, solid evidence to discuss this issue, as many statements have been made here today, without support for science or evidence, but simply the opinion”, Dr. Jason Goldman, a link for US colleges (ACP) At the meeting, but at the meeting, but at the meeting, “Dr. Jason Goldman is said.

A review of the evidence of the CDC on Thimerosal on the agency’s website was previously published, which does not show ingredient safety risks, but was then removed. A former CDC official Published a copy of the online article.

“A scientifically rigorous CDC report that reviews Thimerosal’s security was published for public access and then abruptly eliminated in the direction of the secretary’s office. The elimination of this document, which contextualized decades of evidence that does not show link between thimerosal and neurotoxicity or autism. Infectious diseases, he said in a statement to ABC News.

Physicians have expressed concern that not recommending the timerosal in some flu vaccines could lead to fewer people to vaccute and distrust even more vaccines.

“Any decrease in the number of flu vaccines will probably result in less people being vaccinated and, subsequently, more hospitalizations and deaths. Its elimination could also indicate to unjustified security concerns of the general public,” O’Leary said.

Another blacked exchange in the meeting occurred during the discussion of the flu vaccines when the member of the ACIP member, Dr. Robert Malone, described the 250 flu deaths among the children during the most recent flu season as a “modest number.”

“The 250 pediatric deaths, which are, we recognize, is a modest number fortunately,” said Malone.

Last season he saw the greatest number of death deaths among the children for a non -pandemic season, and the highest number seen from the Global H1N1 2009 Global Pandemia, CDC data shows.

Malone received an immediate thrust during the meeting. Goldman of ACP said that the number of deaths “is not a small number, especially if it is his own child dying from the preventable disease of the vaccine.”

Jade A. Cobern, MD, MPH, is certified by the Board in Pediatrics and General Preventive Medicine, and is a medical member of the ABC News Medical Unit.