A decisive federal vaccine committee recommended against seasonal flu Vaccines that contain specific preservatives – a change that is likely to send a shock through the global medical and scientific community and may affect the availability of vaccines in the future.
The committee was re -formed unilaterally by the Minister of Health Robert F Kennedy Junior, a The skeptical vaccine that urged the non -use of themeosal although there is no evidence of harm in the real world.
Three votes, the members voted in favor of restricting taimiosal in seasonal influenza vaccines in all age groups – with five in favor of restriction, refraining from one and one vote against.
“No.”, a member of the committee and professor of pediatrics at the Jayszlots College, which was “no”, a professor of pediatrics at the Gizalots School, which was “no”: “The risk of influenza is much greater than thimrosal.”
“I would like to hate not to receive someone flu The vaccine is because the only availability setting contains thymeosal – I find it very difficult to justify it. “
The committee, which is officially called the Consulting Committee for Irrational Practices (ACIP) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a decisive link in the vaccine distribution pipeline – informing healthy insurance companies and doctors alike about the vaccines that patients must.
Kennedy All 17 previous members launched From the committee in June, noting a conflict of interests, and the eyes of eight new members, all of whom are ideological allies of the secretary.
None of the new members published written conflicts or added to the development of the Trump administration Tracking conflicts of interests For ACIP members, starting Thursday morning.
“There is a very big difference between what has been shared in the meeting in exchange for what is realistic,” said Dr. Sean Olieri, Chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics on infectious diseases. “The flag is settled on the thymeosal, and the rhetoric used for a suggestion otherwise is misleading and harmful.”
Instead of voting on an agenda that included seasonal recommendations one day Covid-19 The vaccine against the HPV (HPV), the ACIP added the controversial focus of thimrosal in the vaccines. The committee confirmed that the influenza vaccine is recommended by Americans over the age of six months.
Although multiple studies did not find any harm in the real world, preservatives were a point of discussion in the advocates of a toxic control for decades. Multiple representatives of the doctors ’associations urged the committee to refuse to recommend the thymeosal at the meeting.
Thimosal is used in about 5 % of the multi -cell influenza bottles, and it is known to be more effective than a single dose combinations. It is not clear how the vote will affect the availability of influenza vaccine before the next influenza season, especially for clinics that depend on these preparations.
Thimrosal has been used as vaccine preservation since before World War II. In the beginning of the first decade of the twentieth century, the thimrosal was removed from all routine vaccines for children and most of the extreme vaccines as a precautionary measure – a decision criticized by experts who argued that he sent mixed messages about a portfolio that was not found to cause harm. Since then the case has been considered by the prevailing medicine.
Thimosal is an ethyle. Ethyl mercury differs from the type of mercury in seafood, called Methael Mercury. Ethyl Permikori has a much short-lived age in the blood and brain, about seven days and 30 days, respectively, compared to methyl mercury, which is about 44-58 days and accumulates in the brain. The amount of mercury ethyle in the influenza vaccine (25 micrograms) is about half of those in a meal of 3 ounces of canned tuna fish (40 micrograms).
Repeated, the great studies conducted in many countries did not find any connection between the higher and neurological effects. A presentation from job scientists at the Disease Control Center, which was initially expected to pass some of these big data before returning the painting on Thursday.
“This article was not accredited by the Al -Amin office and was removed.”.
Instead, the committee listened to a presentation from Lyn Redwood, a nurse, a foundation Global mercury projectThe predecessor of the Children’s Health Group to combat the invitation in Kennedy. Before the meeting, its presentation was found Includes reference For a study, it seemed formed.
“This is an old issue that has been addressed in the past and there are many issues that we can discuss,” Maysar said.
In response to the criticism of the Redwood offer, “ACIP President Martin Coldorf, a former professor at Harvard University who was separated because he rejected the Covid-19 vaccine:” It is inappropriate to reject the presentation just because the person does not have a doctorate or MD. “
This decision can have global effects, because the vaccines used all over the world depend on thymeosal as the maintenance of multiple bottles, which are less expensive.
“I know that ACIP focuses on the United States, but the recommendations made by ACIP are followed by many countries around the world,” said Maysner.
“Removing themes from all the vaccines used in other countries, for example, will reduce access to these vaccines, and will increase costs, and I think it is important to point out that no study has ever indicated any damage from the thymeosal.”
