What’s Next for CDC’s Remade Vaccine Advisory Committee?What’s Next for CDC’s Remade Vaccine Advisory Committee?
Dr. Robert Malone (C) speaks during the first meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on June 25, 2025. Recently remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the committee plans to review recommendations for multiple vaccines. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
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What’s Next for CDC’s Remade Vaccine Advisory Committee?

Plans include reviewing hepatitis B and measles vaccine recommendations.
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By Zachary Stieber
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The vaccine advisory committee remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to look at multiple other vaccines, after it voted to advise officials to stop recommending influenza shots that contain mercury.

Martin Kulldorff, the new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), said on June 26 that one proposal is to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to make clear that young children should not receive the measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (MMRV) combination immunization.

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