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DoD Resumes Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program
American Forces Press Service ^
| Jan. 8, 2004
| By Gerry J. Gilmore
Posted on 01/08/2004 10:48:01 AM PST by Calpernia
A federal judge ruled Jan. 7 that the Defense Department could again legally administer anthrax immunizations to troops.
That same day, DoD personnel chief Dr. David S.C. Chu noted in a departmentwide memorandum that military commanders "should immediately resume the anthrax vaccination program."
The department's anthrax vaccine immunization program had been in hiatus since Dec. 23, after an injunction granted the previous day by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia caused DoD to suspend the program.
The department, Chu wrote in the memo, "remains convinced that the AVIP complies with all legal requirements, and there is now no judicial restraint" on administration of the vaccine.
Senior DoD leaders, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, maintain that the anthrax vaccine is a safe and necessary prophylactic for U.S. troops deployed in the war against terrorism where enemies may employ biological, chemical or nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
Both Rumsfeld and Myers have received anthrax shots.
TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afgenmyers; anthrax; anthraxvaccine; avip; dod; drchu; immunization
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01/08/2004 10:48:04 AM PST
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Calpernia
To: MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BOBTHENAILER; ...
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A federal judge ruled Jan. 7 that the Defense Department could again legally administer anthrax immunizations to troops.
Keep the lawyers out of DoD!
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01/08/2004 10:49:16 AM PST
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Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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Protect the troops ~ Bump!
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01/08/2004 12:33:47 PM PST
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blackie
To: Calpernia
Bump!
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posted on
01/08/2004 7:52:24 PM PST
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windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: Calpernia; windchime; Alamo-Girl; blackie
Stand by for the lightning strike! There'll be one less lawyer lying to us...
From:
www.military.com
>>On Wednesday, while siding with the government to lift the ban, Sullivan remarked from the bench he found last week's FDA rule "highly suspicious," coming on the heels of his injunction. The vaccine's safeness and effectiveness has been challenged for years in court, he said, and in spite of countless administrative hearings and battles, he questioned the rule's timing.
"Only after the issuance of an injunction, up pops a federal rule" supporting the government's position, a skeptical Sullivan told lawyer Shannen Coffin, a Justice Department attorney representing the Pentagon. "And you're telling me it's coincidental."
"I'd stand on a stack of Bibles and tell you it's coincidental, "Coffin told Sullivan.
"That's an amazing coincidence," Sullivan rebutted.
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01/10/2004 3:14:35 PM PST
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zipper
(Retired Air Force Officer)
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