Posted on 07/02/2005 1:16:47 PM PDT by TheSentry
WASHINGTON- The government's effort to develop a new vaccine against anthrax has raised red flags among critics over plans to eventually test an experimental version on children.
Robert Bock, a spokesman for the Nat'l. Inst. of Child Health and Human Development, said the new anthrax vaccine would not be tested on 100 first-and-second-graders until it is first tested safely on adults. That is under way now, he said.
"If that study is successful, there will probably be a protocol to test the anthrax vaccine in children," Bock said.
While federal rules govern how children can be used in medical research, Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the Nat'l. Vaccine Info. Center, said the threat of anthrax exposure was too remote to subject children to a possibly dangerous substance. "There is almost no risk to these children of being exposed to a form of...anthrax that has been weaponized" so it can be inhaled, sais Fisher, whose non-profit grouphas been pushing for vaccine safety since the 1980s. "The benifits are zero and the risk is quite high." ...Meryl Nass, a Maine internist who has treated numerous soldiers who've experienced numerous medical problems after taking the BioPort (anthrax) vaccine, said one of the primary ingredients in the experimental vaccine -the protective antigen- is a known toxin. " There is no good reason to expect that (the experimental) vaccine will be any safer than the older one," she said.
[ entire article at K. C. Star's website ]
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Those who want to diminish the population don't stop at abortion.
How does he know that for sure, I wonder?
Does he have a direct line to al-Qaeda HQ?
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