Court ruling again stops anthrax shots for US soldiers
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Oct 28, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The Department of Defense (DoD) has suspended its anthrax vaccination program in response to a federal court ruling that military personnel should not have to accept the shots against their will unless the president orders
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The Indonesian government has ordered isolation and banned the trade of livestock from several villages in Bogor regency after anthrax caused the deaths of six people in the areas, the Agriculture Ministry said Monday.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.
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THE United States has ordered 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine, costing $1.16 billion, from pharmaceutical VaxGen, health secretary Tommy Thompson said today.
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the military to temporarily refrain from awarding the largest security contract in Iraq. The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U.S. Army veteran filed a protest against the government practice of hiring what he calls mercenaries, according to...
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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 federal judge on Wednesday barred the US military from forcing troops to be vaccinated for anthrax without either getting their informed consent or obtaining a special order from President Bush.
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The Department of Defense, insisting that servicemen are still at great risk of becoming exposed to anthrax in the Mideast and South Korea, wants to resume inoculating them against the bacteria.
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The media and public will be barred from witnessing the testimony of Iraqis in a hearing for U.S. Army soldiers accused of raping and murdering an Iraqi teenager, an Army commander has ruled.
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A federal judge says he will hold a former USA Today reporter in contempt if she continues refusing to identify sources for stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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A federal appeals court on Monday barred the Defense Department from withholding funds from colleges and universities that deny access to military recruiters.
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A ban on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons in the United States ends on Monday having been fatally wounded in the crossfire of the US presidential election.
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VaxGen, which shifted its focus to bioterrorism treatments after failures in HIV research, has won an $877 million contract to supply the United States government with anthrax vaccine.
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Scientists say they have made a blocker that could stop the lethal anthrax toxin from attacking the body.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider dismissing a lawsuit seeking to hold gun manufacturers responsible for the 1999 shooting of a letter carrier by a white supremacist.
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In an effort to prevent the spread of anthrax into the capital, the Jakarta administration has temporarily banned livestock supplies from Bogor regency, where a number of villagers in one district have died or fallen ill from the disease over the past week
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Investigators revise the view that anthrax used in attacks in the US was of military grade, a US paper reports.