U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee endorsed fall flu vaccinations Thursday for just ...

RFK Jr. has long linked thimerosal to autism – a connection that extensive scientific research has thoroughly debunked.

A CDC advisory panel voted 5–1 to recommend only flu vaccines without the preservative thimerosal, a mercury-containing ...

A CDC advisory panel has recommended that the preservative thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines, a largely symbolic move but one that could sow doubts about safety.

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

Going into the 1976-77 winter season, the world waited – and prepared – for an H1N1 swine influenza pandemic that never came. By September 1976, New York State Health Department workers were unloading ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Donald S. Burke, University of Pittsburgh (THE CONVERSATION) Nineteen-year-old U.S ...

By September 1976, New York State Health Department workers were unloading cartons of swine flu vaccine for distribution. AP Photo/Jim McKnight But that wasn’t the end of the story.

It's not possible to get swine flu from eating pork. In 1976, there was an outbreak of swine-origin flu among military recruits in Ft. Dix, N.J. Some of these young men died.

The effectiveness of the 1976 swine flu vaccine is difficult to measure as the virus did not spread beyond Fort Dix. However, a 2010 study found that people who received the 1976 vaccine had a ...