Claim: A widely-circulated image claims to reveal the ingredients contained in this year's flu shots. The alleged ingredients include mercury, antifreeze, phenol, animal blood, animal viruses, and formaldehyde. While trace amounts of formaldehyde is present in flu vaccines authorized in Canada this year, as well as the mercury-based product thimerosal in some of them, the photo's ingredients list is misleading and mostly inaccurate.
Fact-check: Flu shots in Canada: ingredients explained
Verdict: misleading
Organisation: AFP Fact Check
Author: Louis Baudoin-Laarman
Date published: 2024-04-17T16:44:09