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Some military personnel have chosen to retire, seek a medical exemption from vaccination, or face a court martial rather than undergo the anthrax vaccine schedule as ordered. The DOD reports that currently about 5 percent of those that require inoculation for the bacteria are refusing it. In addition, an Army Times Publishing Company poll revealed that 75 percent of respondents—all active-duty military personnel—opposed the current DOD policy on anthrax vaccination. One such service member is retired officer Redmond Handy, president of the nonprofit NO ABUSE. Handy claims that, in addition to health concerns posed by the vaccine, it has proven ineffective against the numerous strains of the bacteria created in labs for germ warfare. In addition, Handy maintains that the vaccine has only afforded marginal survival rates in animals tested in laboratory studies.
The study seeks to include1,100 subjects to receive the vaccine, a placebo, or some combination of vaccine and placebo during six separate administrations of the shot. Researchers are seeking to evaluate the effects of age, gender, and race on the subjects reaction to the vaccine. The study is part of an Institute of Medicine's evaluation of the vaccine through which the committee will advise the DOD on the prudence of continuing the current course of vaccination. LINKS of INTEREST: To track the progress of the Institute of Medicine study see http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/18ace... and http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages... To learn more about NO ABUSE, visit the Web site at http://www.enter.net/~jfsorg/index.htm
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