A vaccine advisory panel picked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going to take a look at the childhood vaccine schedule, including whether a commonly used adjuvant is safe, according to a newly released document.
A workgroup of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will analyze the safety of aluminum and other ingredients included in multiple different vaccines, according to the document, which was dated Oct. 8.
“For example, do either of the two different aluminum adjuvants increase the risk of asthma?” the document states.
Aluminum salts are part of at least some vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, haemophilus influenzae type b bacterium, human papillomavirus virus, hepatitis A, polio, and hepatitis B. They have served as adjuvants, or substances used to boost the immune response in recipients, since the 1930s….