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Anthrax vaccine does not affect pregnancy or birth rates.(Brief Article)
2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The pregnancy and birth rates of women who received the anthrax vaccine were not different from those of women who were not vaccinated, according to U.S. Army researchers.
The anthrax vaccine has the potential to cause health hazards, including reproduction problems in women. To determine the level of risk, A.R. Weisen, from the Madigan Army Medical Center, and colleagues analyzed information on 4092 women, of whom 3136 received at least one anthrax vaccination.
The women chosen for inclusion into the study ranged from 17-44 years old and had been stationed from January 1999 through March 2000 at Fort Stewart or Hunter Army Airfield, both located in Georgia, U.S.A. (Relationship between prepregnancy anthrax vaccination and pregnancy and birth outcomes among US army women, Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002;287(12):1556-1560).
Weisen and his team found that 385 pregnancies had occurred after at least one anthrax vaccination, out of a total of 513 pregnancies. Irrespective of corrections made for differences in marital status, race, and age, vaccinated and unvaccinated women were equally likely to become pregnant (odds ratio of ...
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