ACIP Votes To No Longer Recommend Flu Vaccines That Contain Thimerosal

The Washington Post (6/26, Weber, Sun) reports the newly reformulated Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted Thursday to “no longer recommend influenza vaccines that contain the preservative thimerosal, based on the presentation of a single vaccine critic.” The AP (6/26, Stobbe, Neergaard) reports the advisory panel “first voted, with one abstention, to back the usual U.S. recommendation that nearly everyone age 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccination. Then the advisers decided people should only be given thimerosal-free single-dose formulations, voting 5-1 with one abstention.”