Anthrax Vaccine

Safety advocates oppose Pentagon's return to mandatory anthrax vaccination of military personnel

Published in Law and Health Weekly, November 18th, 2006

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs William Winkenwerder, MD, reportedly will announce that U.S. soldiers will once again be forced under threat of court martial to be injected with anthrax vaccine without their voluntary, informed consent.

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is warning that one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination policies are dangerous for those with genetic and other biological risk factors, making them vulnerable to brain and immune system dysfunction following anthrax vaccination.

The NVIC is launching the Military and Biodefense Vaccine Project (MBVP) with a website dedicated to providing the public with...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2006-11-18)

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