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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020107/hl/anthrax_vaccine_study_1.html
Monday January 7 2:22 PM ET
CDC Studies Anthrax Vaccine Worry
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (news - web sites) is preparing to survey military personnel about
the anthrax vaccine in hopes of learning how fears about its safety can be
lessened.
The Pentagon (news - web sites) began inoculating about
2.4 million troops against anthrax. But the program has been on hold since
1998, after just 500,000 personnel had received the vaccine, because of a
shortage of supplies.
Some service personnel also have refused to take the
injections because of fears of severe side effects.
Those long opposed to the military’s anthrax vaccination
program say the shots could be connected to complaints of chronic fatigue, bone
and joint pain, memory loss and other problems. They also claim the military
has not done enough to investigate the vaccine’s long-term effects or whether
it can be given safely with other vaccine.
The vaccine’s only manufacturer, Lansing, Mich.-based
BioPort Corp., insists the vaccine is safe. The Pentagon says severe side
effects occur only about once per 200,000 doses.
The CDC’s nationally representative survey aims to
determine what percentage of troops have concerns about the vaccine, and
identify the details of those concerns as well as what could help alleviate
them, according to a presentation Monday by CDC scientist Deborah Gust to an
Institute of Medicine (news - web sites) panel.
The Institute of Medicine committee is advising the CDC on
its research into whether the military vaccination program can use fewer doses,
thereby reducing side effects, and still work. Military personnel now receive
six shots over 18 months.
The study will involve two surveys about two years apart,
conducted with about 16,000 military personnel, both active and reserve, on 36
bases, Gust said.
The Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax outbreak afterward
set the study schedule back about six months, with the last survey now slated
for November 2005, she said.
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