PLANS to vaccinate all 2.4 million US military personnel against anthrax are
in fresh trouble. Research notes from a crucial test of the vaccine in monkeys
suggest that, while jabs may keep soldiers alive after an anthrax attack, they
will become too sick to fight. This follows a damning report earlier this year,
in which Congress called the plan a “medical Maginot Line”
(Â鶹´«Ã½, 26 February, p 5).
For most US troops, the problem is academic
anyway, as the army has run out of vaccine.
George Robertson of BioReliance in Rockport, Maryland, a former vaccine
researcher, has obtained…
