2003--Brits were supposed to give anthrax vaccine alone

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,1012870,00.html

British Legion challenges MoD on Gulf war jabs

Hencke, Westminster correspondent

Wednesday August 6, 2003

The Guardian

The Royal British Legion and the Ministry of Defence are heading for a

legal showdown over the multiple vaccination of 52,000 soldiers in the

first Gulf war, after the disclosure in the Guardian this week that

when they were given anthrax vaccinations the official safety

guidelines were not observed.

of the law firm Hodge, and , which is taking

up compensation claims for members of the armed forces who suffered

Gulf war illnesses, said the disclosure was " very significant " .

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The lawyers are demanding assurances that all the vaccinations - some

soldiers received as many as 28 jabs - followed safety guidelines. The

ministry, which could be faced with huge claims for compensation, has

so far declined to reply.

Yesterday Colonel Terry English, the legion's director of welfare,

said: " We have been appalled by the attitude of the Ministry of

Defence.

" They have refused to answer questions from our parliamentary adviser,

Lord , for over a year about whether they had followed safety

guidelines for anthrax and other vaccines. "

The former health minister Lord Hunt said earlier this year that

anthrax vaccine should be used alone, contrary to the medical records

held by a former officer, Captain Beverley Green.

The Ministry of Defence said that it hoped to reply to Lord "

very shortly " .

Meryl Nass, MD

Mount Desert Island Hospital

Bar Harbor, Maine 04609

207 288-5081 ext. 220

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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