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Shots In The Dark www.armytimes.com What the Pentagon doesn't want you to know about the anthrax vaccine By Kent Miller, Times Staff Writer The Defense Department is on the verge of having to further curtail or altogether suspend its anthrax vaccination program because of dwindling supply. With only about 32,000 doses now in stock, defense officials say, and shots continuing at a rate of about 5,000 doses a month, the supply will run out by the end of September. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has asked for a review of the vaccination policy, but will "make no snap decisions," according ...

Medicine: Once a wary watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration set out to become a "partner" of the pharmaceutical industry. Today, the public has more remedies, but some are proving lethal. Click here for article

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is reviewing a recently completed life-cycle cost estimate report for a government-owned, contractor-operated biological defense vaccine production facility, according to a Pentagon spokesman. According to a program official, the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program office at Ft. Detrick, MD, contracted with industry to put together the report, which includes an assessment of facility and operational requirements as well as life-cycle costs over 26 years. The estimate used a generic site model meeting basic criteria because the site selection process has not begun, this source said. The report is intended as a starting point to prepare a ...

BioPort facts Employees: 215 History: Privately owned company. Bought Lansing labs from state of Michigan in 1998. Key product: Sole U.S. producer of vaccine to fight anthrax, a deadly biological weapon possessed by Iraq and other potentially hostile nations, according to the Pentagon. By Tim Martin and A.J. Evenson Lansing State Journal New tests on the effectiveness and safety of the Lansing-made anthrax vaccine could begin next week. The battery of studies - coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the lead federal agency charged with protecting health and safety - could help answer lingering concerns about ...

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Acting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner Dr. Bernard Schwetz to eliminate the military's controversial Anthrax vaccination program (AVA). In letters to Secretary Rumsfeld and Commissioner Schwetz, Blumenthal argued the compulsory vaccination program is compelling military personnel, including members of the Connecticut Air National Guard, to "put either their health or their careers at risk." "The United States Government so far has refused to recognize or appreciate the danger and the personal dilemma it is imposing on its military personnel, despite repeated concerns expressed about administering an unlicensed ...

Gulf War Illness Awareness Ride 2001 Native American Vet to Ride Wheelchair to State Capital AGAIN In Protest of the treatment given to Veterans with Gulf War Illness     On May 5th. 2001, one veteran will again ride over 250 miles in his wheelchair, along Hwy. 10 from Moorhead arriving May 17th to the capital of Minnesota, in St. Paul to demand answers about Gulf War Illness. Currently there are 300 thousand vets registered with symptoms of the gulf war illness and thousands have died. Since the Gulf War information has been obtained that proves that there are many ...

'A Glimpse of Hell' airs tonight Fox movie based on book by co-author of WND series on Gore © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A made-for-TV movie airing on Fox today is based on a book by Charles C. Thompson II, the veteran journalist who, along with Tennessee reporter Tony Hays, authored a three-months-long series of articles in WorldNetDaily exposing alleged corruption on the part of then-Vice President Al Gore. The book and film concern a disastrous explosion on a Navy warship: On April 19, 1989, Gun Turret Two on the U.S.S. Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors. Initially, the Navy claimed the explosion resulted from ...

"These people feel trapped into accepting treatment from the same system that injured them," Redmond Handy tells me somberly in the lobby of the military medical center. Handy looks like a G-man in his trench coat and military haircut. The black nylon bag he carries bulges with files on what he calls his "people," young servicemen and women who have had serious reactions to the controversial anthrax vaccine. He lays out the ground rules: no pictures, no names, no branch of service, no identification of gender, and minimal particulars on medical conditions--as these, too, may reveal the patient's identity. ...

"IN THE NAME OF DECENCY" AN OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD RUMSFELD Dear Mr. Secretary, Welcome back as secretary of defense. A lot has happened to our nation's military since you served so well under President Gerald Ford. I don't have to tell you about low morale, troops on food stamps, or idiotic dictates that "dishonor" those who EARNED the Rangers' Black Beret in the "guise" of "improving morale." You know about that. Those of us in uniform who suffered under the previous regime have confidence you will restore honesty, integrity, and most of all respect to the ...

Welcome to the Anthrax Vaccine Network We are here for three primary reasons: to educate the public about the Anthrax Vaccine Program; to mobilize for political action across the country; and to introduce those who are ill with adverse reactions to the vaccine so that they may provide each other with help and support. Whether you enjoy good health or are ill; whether you are active duty military, a vet, a military family, a vaccine refuser, former military, or civilian, we invite you to learn about our organization and to join us. If your concern is to protect the health ...

Anthrax Vaccine Maker Didn't Report Army Sergeant's Death, According to FDA The Pentagon's lone anthrax vaccine manufacturer failed to report a vaccine-related death that occurred in June 2000, according to an Oct. 26, 2000, Food and Drug Administration report of an inspection at the BioPort Corp. plant in Lansing, Mich. BioPort also failed to investigate or react to reports by the Pentagon's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of servicemembers becoming ill after receiving one or more shots in the DoD's Anthrax Vaccine Inoculation Program (AVIP), according to the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Stars ...

Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist, played a major role in forming a coalition of military personnel, family members and outside experts that has opposed the Pentagon's anthrax vaccine immunization program. She has consulted for the General Accounting Office, testified before the House Government Reform subcommittee on national security, veterans affairs and international relations and the House Armed Services Committee, and provided testimony to the U.S. Institute of Medicine. Stripes: What is your professional background? Nass: I am an internist in private practice. I treat many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and Gulf War illnesses. Since 1989, I have worked ...

Capt. John Buck, USAF, the first military doctor to receive a general court-martial for refusing the anthrax vaccine (at Keesler Air Force Base near Biloxi, Miss.) is not alone in running afoul of the controversial Pentagon vaccination program. Buck's arraignment on a charge of disobedience of a lawful order is set for Apr. 18. His trial is set for May 15. Buck and other military defendants recently lost a bid to have a court of military appeals declare the order to take the series of anthrax shots unlawful--as a matter of law. Maj. Sonny Bates, USAF, 14-year career pilot who ...

Anthrax Vaccine:  A Doctor's Oath And A Military Code Collide Feb 20, 2001 Dave Eberhart Stars and Stripes Veterans Affairs Editor Capt. John Buck, M.D., works the evening emergency room shift at busy, sprawling Keesler Air Force Base near Biloxi, Miss. He answers questions with a crisp "Yes, sir" or "No, sir." Buck says he wants to serve his country in any climate or any place, in peace or war. After an hour with him, you have the impression that, if ordered, he would parachute into downtown Baghdad at night with his medical kit. But there's one thing Buck won't ...

GROUPS SEEK AMNESTY FOR GIS WHO REFUSED ANTHRAX SHOTS By Michael Kilian Washington Bureau February 13, 2001 WASHINGTON -- Two groups representing 10 servicemen and women discharged or disciplined for refusing to take controversial anthrax shots asked President Bush on Monday to grant amnesty on compassionate grounds to all who refuse the vaccinations. The groups, Citizen Soldier and NO ABUSE, also asked the White House to halt inoculations immediately and to reconsider the Clinton administration policy requiring the shots for all U.S. military personnel. The groups claim the vaccinations pose a serious health hazard and are causing valuable personnel ...

Join us in fighting for reforms and/or repeal of the "Feres Doctrine" by signing our Petition, to prevent human/constitutional rightsviolations of American citizens serving in the United States Armed Forces. http://www.i-charity.net/ptn/80

Military rejects substance abuse ... unless it's the anthrax vaccine By REDMOND H. HANDY A SUN HERALD READER FORUM Imagine our government actually forcing citizens to abuse a drug. Then again, don't imagine. Just look closely at the military anthrax vaccine policy.

Air Force Physician Becomes First Military Physician to Face Court Martial For Refusing to Take Anthrax Shots Captain John Buck, an emergency-room physician at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., faces the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing within hours now -- a hearing that will, for better or worse, permanently mark the rest of his life and career. Starting at 8 a.m. on Thursday, January 11, the hearing -- expected to last about six hours -- will examine the reasoning, both pro and con, behind Buck's stance that the military's mandatory anthrax vaccine program is illegal, and is harmful ...