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ACIP panel to discuss influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal, which Kennedy called dangerous' in 2014 book

A key vaccine advisory panel reconstituted by health secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr is slated to discuss thimerosal-containing influenza vaccines in its first meeting - an ingredient which has been a fixation of anti-vaccine activists for decades.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will hold two separate votes later this month: one on influenza vaccines" and one on influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal.