The ingredient does contain small amounts of ethylmercury, not methylmercury, ethylmercury, which is the same kind of mercury found in fish in very smallvery small amounts. And so we compelled the manufacturers to reformulate the vast majority of vaccines. Still, 4% of flu vaccines that get administered mostly to adults are from these multi dose vials. This has long been a bugaboo of the Secretary and his group, the Children's Health Defense Fund. In fact, the only presentation at the ACIP meeting was from the head of that group. (04:01–04:07)
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Asserts that 4% of flu vaccines administered are from multi-dose vials containing thimerosal.
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