Judge Halts Forced Military Anthrax Shots

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Military-Anthrax.html


December 22, 2003
Judge Halts Forced Military Anthrax Shots
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:24 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon must stop forcing servicemen and women to take the anthrax vaccination against their will, unless President Bush signs a special order, a judge ruled Monday.

Millions of shots have been given and hundreds of service members have been punished for refusing them since the mandatory vaccinations started in 1998.

The judge ruled that the anthrax vaccinations fell under a 1998 law prohibiting the use of certain experimental drugs unless people being given the drug consent or the president waives the consent requirement.

Congress passed the law following fears that the use of such drugs may have led to unexplained illnesses among veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War that have come to be known as Gulf War Syndrome


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But if * signs the waiver, he can not walk away from any problems with it.

[frank frankly]

1. Very Interesting

Hmmmm, maybe those vaccines really can be bad for you.

I wonder if the smallpox vaccine they were pushing is next for review???

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

2. Read what it doesn't say.

I'm not a NYT subscriber, so I can't read the article myself, but nowhere in the passage above does it say that they're testing anthrax prevention shots...

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[leetrisck]

3. The anthrax vaccinations were mandatory

during the first Gulf War (poppy bush). Big uprorar over it at the time (within military). The vaccinations had never been approved by anyone but they were ordered at that time.

[Ilsa]

4. I think this is a big deal.

For one thing, I think it would be hysterical if Bush felt like he had to "force" the military to take the damn shots. Not likely win over any fence-sitters by doing that, not that it matters since most of the military already was forced to take it.

Another thing is that I think it makes the members of the military stop and reconsider whether Uncle Sam knows best about this stuff, when the judge said they were being used as guinea pigs for an unproven vax.

Why the hell did it take this long to get this reviewed and a judgement?

[PaDUer]

5. After how many...

became ill or died...Remember when * scammed his way through so no one was able to sue the govt...he knew..