Mandatory anthrax vaccination for all 2.4 million US military personnel may
soon end. Congress鈥檚 subcommittee on national security has called the
three-year-old programme a 鈥渕edical Maginot line鈥 based on 鈥渁 paucity of
science鈥. In a damning report, it accuses the Department of Defense of
understating the risks of the 40-year-old vaccine, and says vaccination has been
forced on people unlikely to encounter the disease. Furthermore, it says that
the vaccine causes adverse reactions and has never been shown to protect against
anthrax weapons.
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