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Pentagon's vaccination program in limbo.(Brief Article)
2002 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Though long-awaited supplies of anthrax vaccine are now available, the Pentagon is not committing itself to restarting its troubled program for America's 2.4 million men and women in uniform.
Officials have declined to say when, or even whether, mass immunizations against the deadly bacteria might resume.
The government January 31 cleared the nation's sole maker of the anthrax vaccine to resume shipping after 4 years of factory violations that stalled efforts to immunize the military.
Pressure to approve the vaccine shipments has grown since last fall's anthrax attacks through the mail killed five people on the East Coast.
Inoculations will continue for only a small number of special-mission units while officials review all factors to determine the vaccine's future use, said a brief Pentagon statement.
Believing Iraq and other nations hostile to the United States have produced anthrax weapons, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 1997 ordered the immunization of all 2.4 million members of the active and reserve military against anthrax, which is a naturally occurring bacteria that, when inhaled, can cause death within a few days.
Troops in Korea and the Persian Gulf started receiving the six-shot regimen. But shortages caused by producer BioPort Corp.'s license problems forced officials to repeatedly cut back on who received it, finally ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Pentagon's vaccination program in limbo.(Brief Article)