The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services adopted Aug. 4 the Advisory ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month quietly endorsed recommendations from his handpicked vaccine advisors that ...

A new CDC panel is expected to meet soon to consider whether to revise, roll back, or hold steady on current vaccine guidelines. Flu and COVID vaccine recommendations are shifting, which is raising ...

CDC scientists presented data from the 2024-2025 season that showed RSV hospitalizations fell 28% to 43% among infants aged 0 to 7 months, compared with pooled rates from 2018 to 2020, when there ...

Six members of the committee voted to continue to recommend that everyone 6 months and older receive an annual flu vaccine. Pebsworth abstained. Vaccines with thimerosal are still approved by the FDA.

CDC committee moves to phase out controversial mercury ingredient from flu vaccines Thimerosal has been removed from most childhood vaccines since 2001, but remained in multi-dose influenza shots ...

Public Health RFK Jr. replaced everyone on the CDC's vaccine panel. Here's why that matters The compound is used in vials containing multiple doses of the flu vaccine.

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.