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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Stobbe and Lauran Neergaard

Kennedy's vaccine committee to vote on flu vaccines and controversial preservative

CDC Vaccine Committee - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's new vaccine advisory committee returned to work Thursday, and the panel may vote on proposals about fall flu vaccines and a preservative in some flu shots that antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, meeting in Atlanta, also is expected to vote on whether to recommend a second version of a lab-made antibody that protects newborns against a childhood menace called respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

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