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By KEN CARLSON
BEE STAFF WRITER

Last Updated: November 3, 2006, 05:05:27 AM PST

A top state health official is allowing flu vaccines containing mercury to be given to children under age 3. Kim Belshe, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, issued a temporary exemption to Assembly Bill 2943, which sought to safeguard young children against vaccines containing thimerosal, a preservative that contains mercury.

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