The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has called on the world’s health bodies to “follow America’s lead” and remove mercury from all vaccines.
In July the US moved to ban the mercury based preservative thiomersal (known in the US as thimerosal) from all influenza vaccines.1 Kennedy said that the move was to “put safety first.”
Before the ban thiomersal was used only in multidose vials of the flu vaccine in the US and …
