Army looking at whether the anthrax vaccine is causing pneumonia deaths

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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030805-063415-2857r

Army weighs vaccine link in troops' death

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The Army will consider whether the anthrax or other vaccine could be causing a cluster of pneumonia cases among soldiers in Iraq and southwestern Asia, an official said Wednesday.

Col. Robert DeFraites of the Army Surgeon General's office told United Press International that the Pentagon would look into whether vaccines, among other factors, might have triggered the pneumonia that has killed two soldiers and sickened 100.

"Among all of the possible causes or contributing factors, we are looking at the immunizations that the soldiers received as well," DeFraites told UPI Wednesday. "It is premature to say that there is any relationship at all."

The Pentagon announced Tuesday it is investigating the cases in search of a common factor, but did not mention vaccines as a possibility.

A co-author of a government-sponsored study of possible side effects from the anthrax vaccine told UPI Tuesday evening that the Army should look at whether that vaccine is behind the cluster of pneumonia cases. That study last year found the vaccine was the "possible or probable" cause of pneumonia in two soldiers.

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1. We were already talking about that earlier today in my home...

that maybe that's what was causing them!