Infectious disease specialist Monica Gandhi, MD examines recent claims about the safety of thimerosal, a preservative used in ...

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...

A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?

Six medical groups today sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a ...

The spokesperson said that surveillance, readiness and response for influenza – including H5N1 bird flu – will continue under the CDC’s influenza division and other appropriate agency programs.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

US President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), right, during a Make ...

Every year, there are an estimated 290,000 to 650,000 influenza-related respiratory deaths globally. In developed countries most deaths associated with flu occur in people aged 65 years or older.