Vaccine Safety Advocates Oppose DOD Anthrax Vaccine Policy

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Vaccine Safety Advocates Oppose Pentagon's Return to Mandatory Anthrax

Vaccination of U.S. Military Personnel

National Vaccine Information Center Provides Military-Biodefense Vaccine

Information

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Assistant Secretary of Defense for

Health Affairs Winkenwerder, M.D. reportedly will announce later

today 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. Today, NVIC is launching the Military and Biodefense Vaccine

Project (MBVP) with a website (http://www.military-biodefensevaccines.org)

dedicated to providing the public with information on the research,

development, regulation, policymaking, legislation and government promotion

of military and biodefense vaccines that may be mandated for mass use in

both military and civilian populations. " America's military service

members deserve to be fully informed about

the deaths, chronic illness and disabilities that many soldiers have

experienced following anthrax vaccination, " said MBVP medical director

Meryl Nass, M.D. " The FDA-approved anthrax vaccine package insert

acknowledges only six deaths and two dozen autoimmune diseases associated

with the vaccine, but the FDA has not directed the manufacturer to update

the insert in nearly five years. More than 1200 anthrax vaccine-injured

soldiers have been treated at the congressionally mandated Vaccine

Healthcare Centers, which DOD has attempted to close. They are suffering

with crippling, life-altering illnesses that are being swept under the rug.

We know the anthrax vaccine is reactive and we suspect it is especially

risky for those with hereditary and other risk factors that DOD refuses to

investigate or acknowledge. " Since the 1991 Gulf War, healthy young

soldiers have reported severe

deterioration in health following anthrax vaccination, including chronic

joint and muscle pain, weakness, gastrointestinal disorders, disabling

fatigue, loss of memory and ability to concentrate, severe headaches,

respiratory and heart problems, and autoimmune disorders that leave them

unable to work or live a normal life. Some U.S. soldiers risked court

martial rather than submit to anthrax vaccination, or re-vaccination after

reactions occurred.

The Pentagon's mandatory anthrax vaccine program was halted in October

2004 when Washington, D.C. federal Judge Emmet Sullivan cited the FDA for

failing to follow FDA licensing regulations. He issued a permanent

injunction directing DOD to stop giving the experimental anthrax vaccine to

military personnel without their voluntary, informed consent. In December

2005, the FDA issued a new Final Order declaring the vaccine safe and

effective, but failed to provide evidence the vaccine was effective against

inhalation (weaponized) anthrax, and failed to address published research

studies and 5,000 adverse events reports received by FDA demonstrating that

anthrax vaccine is causing serious health problems. The National Vaccine

Information Center filed an amicus brief in support of soldiers seeking to

stop DOD from forcing anthrax vaccinations without informed consent.

" The National Vaccine Information Center has worked for 25 years to

institute informed consent protections in America's mass vaccination

system, " said NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher. " The right

to informed consent to medical risk taking, which involves risk of injury

or death, is a human right whether an American citizen is a soldier or a

civilian. The DOD has a moral duty to fully disclose anthrax vaccine risks,

as well as benefits, to soldiers and allow them to make an informed,

voluntary vaccination decision. The launch of the Military and Biodefense

Vaccine Project, which expands our website information, will provide

necessary information for informed vaccine decision making. "

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is a non-profit,

educational organization founded in 1982 and dedicated to preventing

vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the

informed consent ethic. NVIC has warned that vaccine injury liability

protection given to pharmaceutical companies, and lack of informed consent

provisions in Project BioShield, as well as other state and federal disease

control legislation enacted since September 11, 2001, endanger civil

liberties. For more information, go to http://www.nvic.org

SOURCE National Vaccine Information Center

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

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

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