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Yeah, I love the way they kept telling our servicemen that Anthrax vaccine was safe and not experimental. Then, during the Anthrax attack of 2001, someone asked the government about using the vaccine on postal workers, and the reply was: that vaccine is experimental and unapproved. Now, it is possible they were talking about two different vaccines (they told me that the one I got was used by Veterinarians and others who had to work around animals infected with anthrax (common west of San Antonio), but if so, they should have been more precise with their verbiage.
Yeah, I love the way they kept telling our servicemen that Anthrax vaccine was safe and not experimental. Then, during the Anthrax attack of 2001, someone asked the government about using the vaccine on postal workers, and the reply was: that vaccine is experimental and unapproved. Now, it is possible they were talking about two different vaccines (they told me that the one I got was used by Veterinarians and others who had to work around animals infected with anthrax (common west of San Antonio), but if so, they should have been more precise with their verbiage.
The vaccine used to protect humans against the anthrax disease, called Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA), was licensed in 1970. It was initially used primarily to protect people who might be exposed to anthrax where they worked, such as veterinarians and textile plant workers who process animal hair.
Use of AVA expanded in 1991, when the U.S. military, concerned that Iraq possessed anthrax bioweapons, administered the vaccine to some 150,000 service members deployed for the Gulf War. With subsequent confirmation of an Iraqi bioweapons program, the Department of Defense (DoD) in 1997 announced a plan for the mandatory vaccination of all U.S. service members. To be phased in gradually, the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program began in March 1998 with personnel sent to high-risk areas, such as South Korea and Southwest Asia.
The report concludes that the vaccine is acceptably safe and effective in protecting humans against anthrax. The vaccine should protect people against all known strains of anthrax bacteria, as well as against any strains that might be created by potential terrorists or others.
In addition, concerns emerged regarding manufacture of the vaccine. In early 1998, the sole facility for the production of AVA was closed for renovation.
... the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) prohibited release of any new vaccine until the company demonstrated that its renovated production process met all federal regulations.
Makes ya' wonder...
Overall, I think the vaccine is reasonably safe, but they began widespread vaccinations on the military before they studied its safety (this thread is "do they test products") and they still don't know for certain, since about one third of those administering the vaccine who admitted they had seen adverse reactions also admitted they didn't report them.
Programs administered to soldiers are notoriously slipshod, since soldier have limited opportunity to complain, and the personnel administering those programs are usually protected from the consequences of their mistakes. (Not saying civilian systems are any better, but I have limited exposure to civilian medicine, since I quit getting sick once I got away from the military petri dish.)
Ha Ha At Little Creek Va. during the 1960s ,I am sure they tried to see if we would sweat blood..
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