How to Use thimerosal in a Sentence

thimerosal

noun

• Mr. Kennedy in the past has raised doubts about thimerosal, a mercury-containing...
  — Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2017
• Studies have shown no evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The myth of a link expanded in 2005 with claims that the vaccine preservative thimerosal causes autism.
  — Michelle Cortez | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2015
• The flu vaccine does contain a preservative called thimerosal, which breaks down to ethylmercury once inside the body.
  — Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
• The fact is that there has never been any scientifically valid evidence for this link, and in any case thimerosal ceased to be used in the U.S. in 2001.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• More importantly, thimerosal doesn't stay in the body long enough to accumulate.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2017
• There are also thimerosal-free formulations of the influenza vaccine, the CDC says.
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
• The health risks associated with thimerosal are much lower than other forms of mercury, according to the CDC.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine never contained thimerosal, but other vaccines given to infants did.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Nonetheless, thimerosal is no longer used in childhood vaccines, but is still used as a preservative in other types of vaccines and medicines, such as ophthalmic solutions.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• While that may seem far-fetched, science has equally disproven the accusations of autism-causation and mercury poisoning through thimerosal.
  — Madeleine Deliee, Woman's Day, 13 Mar. 2017
• Some have tried linking mercury – specifically thimerosal – with autism.
  — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2017
• That said, because thimerosal is found only in multidose vials, it can easily be avoided by receiving a thimerosal-free single-dose flu vaccine.
  — Anne P. Kim, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2020
• The conclusion of the scientific community is clear that thimerosal-containing vaccines are safe and effective and do not represent a public health risk.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2014
• Research has repeatedly shown that vaccines and their ingredients, including thimerosal, do not cause autism.
  — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 21 June 2023
• Kennedy's thesis is that the scientific community is wrong about thimerosal being a safe vaccine ingredient and unduly confident about the lack of evidence for a link between thimerosal and autism.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2014
• But multiple studies that followed could not establish an association between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.
  — Anne P. Kim, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2020
• Her fellow lobbyist, Kennedy, has argued that vaccines, specifically those containing the element thimerosal, may cause autism, a view unsupported by scientific evidence and dismissed as a conspiracy theory by experts.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 June 2019

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024