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EDITOR'S NOTE: To take the anthrax shot or not? That is the question facing hundreds of thousands of military personnel, who are under orders to roll up their sleeves for the controversial jab or face dismissal. Among those making the decision is TIME.com writer Frank Pellegrini, who is on leave as he undergoes training for the Army Reserves. Having completed boot camp in Fort Jackson, S.C. - regular readers may recall his series describing his experiences there - he is now in the Army's journalism school. In this supplement to his series, he describes how he is dealing with...
WILLIAM COHEN Defense Department botches anthrax inoculations. So much for "Turn your head and cough...
...early 1990s, Meselson and his wife, Boston College biologist Jeanne Guillemin, led a team that investigated the deaths of almost 70 inhabitants around a germ warfare plant in Siberia in 1979. Undergraduates mapped the paths escaped anthrax germs may have traveled, proving that the deaths were indeed caused by the disease and not by bad meat, as Russian authorities claimed...
...which are supposed to disappear within a few days - fears of the vaccine have been contagious in the ranks. This past weekend a dozen members of the Indiana Air National Guard were banned from flying after refusing the shots, which are administered in six injections of low doses of anthrax over 18 months and boosters every year...
...program was launched in 1997 in response to fears of biological warfare that began during the Gulf War when the Iraqi army reportedly tipped missiles with vials of anthrax. But soldiers complain that the Pentagon rushed into requiring the vaccine. The House committee investigating the vaccine agrees, saying in its report that "the Defense Department answers with an excess of faith but a paucity of science." In addition, military personnel increasingly resent having the vaccine injected into their bodies when there seems to be a minimal chance that they will be deployed to combat one of the 10 nations known...