Defense Employees Set For Another Suit to Halt Mandatory Anthrax Shots
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Six unnamed Defense Department employees are renewing their legal battle to stop Pentagon officials from administering mandatory anthrax vaccinations, claiming that the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the shot was flawed and puts people at risk.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent anthrax scare, medical experts are still struggling with how best to handle a widespread bioterrorism attack.
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The federal government ordered a new $877 million anthrax vaccine last month, but the vaccine is still unproven in humans.
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Scientists working for the government have developed standards to measure the accuracy of anthrax detection tests, hoping to steer first responders away from tests that have delivered too many false readings.
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FORT HOOD, Tex., Jan. 13 -- After a military judge again rebuffed their efforts to probe the role of senior Army officers in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, defense lawyers for former guard Charles A. Graner Jr. rested their case Thursday, leaving the defendant's fate up to a 10-man military jury.
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WASHINGTON Seventy-five (m) million doses of the next generation anthrax vaccine are to be made for the government by a California biotech company.
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Authorities are testing a suspicious powder mailed to the U.S. Embassy in Malaysia to determine whether it is anthrax, officials said Monday after the second such scare at a U.S. mission in Asia within a week.
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Chiron Corp. is being investigated by the US Justice Department over the suspension of its flu vaccine factory in the UK because of contamination, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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Lawmakers on Wednesday requested additional independent tests to determine whether standard-issue body armor for U.S. soldiers is more effective than an alternative.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Defense Department to stop requiring members of the armed forces to be vaccinated against anthrax without their consent.
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A court halts the Pentagon&#39;s mandatory anthrax shot program, saying the government failed to follow rules to ensure the drug&#39;s safety.
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They can do it for love of God and country - or for the $60. Either way, soldiers vaccinated against anthrax have the opportunity to help future anthrax victims by donating their blood.
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WASHINGTON - A judge admonished government lawyers yesterday after being told officials investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks still are talking to the media about a bioterrorism expert who has not been charged in the case.
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The U.S. government needs to throw away more than $12 million worth of expired anthrax vaccine and quickly use up the rest of a rapidly aging supply worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a Government Accountability Office expert said on Tuesday.
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According to the Department of Defense, a lethal virus is infecting military recruits. At one time, a vaccine was used to prevent adenovirus, and the Pentagon is now trying to &quot;re-enlist&quot; that vaccine.
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The federal Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it is purchasing 75 million doses of a new generation anthrax vaccine from Brisbane, Calif.
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Thirty-three members of Congress have written Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demanding that the FBI update lawmakers on the investigation into the anthrax attacks five years ago that paralyzed the nation with bio-terror fears.