Yeah you are right thimerosal isn't the only thing toxic in vaccines here is a quote from the ABC hit piece you posted.
"The ingredient in flu vaccines that worries parent groups is thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative developed in the 1930s that helped prevent deep infections from immunization, according to McCormick."
Thats Deep infections from the vaccine, your own article states it plain as can be. Deep infections cannot be healthy.
Here is another article blowing that hit piece out of the water.