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By Science News

- More than 2 years ago

Many people who are exploring the possible connection between childhood vaccines and autism claim that the culprit is not the vaccines themselves, but the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal. Does the Danish MMR vaccine contain it?

Anne Seals
Sumner, Wash.

Thimerosal has never been used in the MMR vaccine, either in the United States or in Denmark .–B.