Anthrax is very, very low out there and we still get an anthrax vaccination
That was a --------, too.
In later court cases, DoD officials denied the vaccine was "investigational" and said the department had long considered it for use against inhalation anthrax, despite a lack of testing or approvals.
The actual threat of weaponized anthrax, and whether the vaccine would protect troops, was questionable.
A 2000 report by the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform noted that using a vaccine as a "mandatory, force-wide countermeasure" to weaponized anthrax was "unrealistic."
Just prior to that report, and against the larger controversy surrounding the vaccine program, then-Capt. Thomas Rempfer and Maj. Russ Dingle were tasked by their Connecticut Air National Guard commander to research the anthrax program and provide him a report as to its safety and efficacy.
"We weren't looking to refuse this vaccine," Rempfer, now a retired lieutenant colonel, told Military Times. "We weren't looking to get involved in this issue."
But once they'd completed their research into the vaccine's troubled history, the report they delivered called for a halt to shots and a serious reconsideration of the whole program.
Bad example, Pussoir...stick to beaker cleanliness
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