Mandatory anthrax vaccination for all 2.4 million US military personnel may
soon end. Congress’s subcommittee on national security has called the
three-year-old programme a “medical Maginot line” based on “a paucity of
science”. In a damning report, it accuses the Department of Defense of
understating the risks of the 40-year-old vaccine, and says vaccination has been
forced on people unlikely to encounter the disease. Furthermore, it says that
the vaccine causes adverse reactions and has never been shown to protect against
anthrax weapons.
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