Dr. Robert Malone & Prof. Retsef Levi: Why Thimerosal Should Be Removed from Flu Vaccines

Dr. Robert Malone explains why he voted to recommend the removal of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, from influenza vaccines during the recent CDC advisory panel meeting:

"97% of all influenza vaccines currently administered in the United States are administered using single dose vials. That means that it comes in a little vial and it's got the rubber nib at the top, and the physician puts the syringe and the needle into that, draws out that one dose, hopefully changes the needle otherwise the needle's a little dull and it hurts more, and then administers it to the child or the adult.

What that does is it minimizes the chance of introducing contamination by going through that rubber stopper - that nib, again and again and again, which is what you do with a multi-dose vial. So multi-dose vials are a little bit cheaper, but they are considerably more risky in terms of introducing contaminants into the jar that then get drawn out and injected into another patient.

That could be a virus like Hepatitis B, it could be a bacterial contamination, it could be a fungal contamination, etc, etc. So, that's why in a multi-dose vial you have to put in some sort of preservative, and there are other approved preservatives other than thimerosal.

So, in the interest of doing our best at this stage to take another move forward in eliminating the added dose of mercury to patients that receive an influenza vaccine - remember that they're going to get a vaccine every year, and the people that get it from a multi-dose vial today are likely to be the same ones that get from a multi-dose vial next year. So, the mercury doesn't get excreted very well.

There is a cumulative effect. And so, the [ACIP] committee, I think wisely, voted to just say no to thimerosal containing multi-dose vials.

Now, for some reason, the pharmaceutical industry and corporate media see this as some sort of existential threat - that eliminating 3% of the influenza doses that contain thimerosal is a crisis for the entire vaccine industry and their academic and media supporters. I don't get it, but that seems to be the meme, and the strange thing is that it has left media and pharma arguing in favor of injecting mercury into Americans.

It just is horrible optics, it's not the right decision, and I think I applaud the committee for having the temerity to just say no."

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