Vaccine Safety

Anthrax Shots Pose Pregnancy Danger

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 6th, 2002

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...

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