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| Beginning in the 1930s, vaccines often included a preservative, called thimerosol, that contained mercury. Not much attention was paid to this fact until 1999, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration estimated that vaccines given to some infants could include amounts of mercury that exceeded some safety guidelines. As a precautionary measure, the U.S. Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics urged vaccine manufacturers to remove this preservative from infant vaccines. Studies have since been conducted on whether thimerosol in vaccines was linked to later neurological and... |
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