Additional Anthrax Deaths Suspected

[David Honig]

At 06:10 PM 10/22/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:52:52PM -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
>> The vaccine has not been proven safe and effective, nor released for use
>> in the general population.  The military has to take it because they are
>> ordered to.
>
>And sometimes not even then. 


What happens if you're knocked up (in the American sense) and get
vaccinated?  Some vaccines are very contraindicated in that condition.
How about the immunocompromised, elderly, young?  The .mil pop is very
different from the general one.  

As for liability/paranoia issues, just look at the autistism folks who 
blame some vaccine instead of genes (because autism becomes noticable 
around the time of that vaccine, and the genetic evidence is only recently
being discovered).

Maybe that's not so important since you can't sue your gov't.