Secretary Kennedy's Message to the Minamata Convention, Nov. 3, 2025
November 3, 2025 · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · 0:02:39
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What happened
HHS published Secretary Kennedy’s message to the Minamata Convention on November 3, 2025. In the statement carried in HHS’s description, Kennedy says: ‘Now that America has removed mercury from all vaccines, I call on every global health authority to do the same — to ensure that no child, anywhere in the world, is ever exposed to this deadly neurotoxin again.’
Why it matters
The address carries Kennedy’s vaccine-ingredient position into an international mercury treaty forum, extending a domestic HHS policy stance to a global ask.
Scoreboard watch
Kennedy’s statement that America has removed mercury from all vaccines, and his call for every global health authority to do the same, is recorded as stated, for the scoreboard’s Health record.
Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ‘Secretary Kennedy’s Message to the Minamata Convention’ (HHS upload, embedded above).
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