Just when you think the government has run out of new
diseases to vaccinate our children against they have come up with a
new one, Anthrax! Whats next, a vaccination against Thermonuclear
War? Perhaps the government could make a vaccine against stupidity
and vaccinate themselves.
~Health Freedom
The Obama administration is considering whether scientists should
inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see if it would
protect them from a bioterrorism attack.
A working group of federal advisers endorsed testing last month and
the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) will meet on Friday to
vote on its recommendation. But critics have called the plans
unethical, unnecessary and dangerous and children should only be
vaccinated in the face of an actual threat. The anthrax vaccine has
been tested extensively in adults and more than 2.6million members
of the armed forces have also been inoculated, the newspaper said.
Daniel B. Fagbuyiof, of the Children’s National Medical Center in
Washington, told the Washington Post: ‘At the end of the day, do we
want to wait for an attack and give it to millions and millions of
children and collect data at that time?
‘Or do we want to say “how do we best protect our children?”
‘We can take care of grandma and grandpa, uncle and auntie. But
right now, we have nothing for the children.’
The anthrax vaccine has been tested extensively in adults and more
than 2.6million members of the armed forces have also been
inoculated, the newspaper said.
But there is no data on how well the vaccine works on children, or
whether it would be safe. Joel Frader, a paediatrician and
bioethicist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of
Medicine, told the Post: ‘It would be difficult to justify testing
it on kids simply on the hypothetical possibility that there might
be an attack.’
Anthrax is an infection caused by a bacteria which is relatively
easy to produce and distribute.
In 1998, the Pentagon began an anthrax immunisation programme in the
military, but it was halted over concerns on the vaccine’s safety.
Personnel currently assigned to bioterrorism activities, including
defence, are required to have anthrax vaccinations – as well as
those deployed for 15 days or more in the Middle East and South
Korea.
The federal government has spent $1.1billion to stockpile the
anthrax in case of an attack.
If the NBSB approves the testing, the FDA, National Institutes of
Health and other agencies will meet to work out how many children
would be studied, at what age and with what dose.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053344/Children-vaccinated-anthrax-test-survive-bioterrorism-attack.html#ixzz1c5n4PJ3M
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