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Anthrax Shots Pose Pregnancy Danger.(Brief Article)
2002 FEB 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There is a new problem with the Pentagon's troubled program to protect military forces from the deadly anthrax virus - pregnant women have mistakenly been given anthrax vaccinations that can cause birth defects.
The Defense Department has ordered military health workers to come up with new plans for avoiding such mistakes after a study by the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery found pregnant women who received anthrax vaccinations ran a higher risk of having babies with defects.
Officials think the study may have used faulty data and have ordered a review, bureau spokesman Lt. Mike Kafka said January 16, 2002.
That could take months, so the Defense Department's top health official is asking each military service to develop a plan to ensure pregnant women in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines do not get the vaccinations in the meantime. Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, asked the services to devise a way to enhance the screening of women of childbearing age, "potentially including pregnancy testing,'' to prevent pregnant women from getting the vaccine.
Throughout the program, health care workers were supposed to be asking women if they were pregnant, to avoid vaccinating expectant mothers. Winkenwerder's memo reiterated the policy and said "it should be reinforced to all medical personnel.''
It's unclear whether women who got the shots weren't asked or simply didn't know they were pregnant at the time. The study also seemed to indicate some women might have gotten the vaccination after their first trimester - by which time they would probably have known they were pregnant. That prompted officials to question the data, said Pentagon spokesman Jim Turner. The Pentagon is not releasing details on the study while the review is under ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Anthrax Shots Pose Pregnancy Danger.(Brief Article)