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Could the Feds Soon Test Anthrax Vaccine on Your Kids?

To test now or to maybe test later? That is the question the Obama Administration advisory group will answer this week over a vaccine that has never been given to children: the one for anthrax.

Government Advisory Board to Vote on Testing Anthrax Vaccine on Children

The anthrax vaccine, which has been tested for adults, is a vaccine that may not ever be necessary and doctors are not sure how children would react to it. But, as The Washington Post reports, the National Biodefense Science Board, which advises the federal government, will vote Friday to decide if children should tested for the vaccine before an attack takes place:

“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?” said Daniel B. Fagbuyi of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, who chaired the group. “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 Post notes that parents are allowed to volunteer their children for testing of vaccines and treatments, but generally the child had the potential to receive some benefit from the vaccine or treatment:

“With this, you’re putting children at risk for no clear scientific or medical benefit,” said Meryl Nass, a doctor in Bangor, Maine, who is one of the most outspoken critics of testing the vaccine in children. Nass and others maintain that there are serious questions about the vaccine’s effectiveness in adults as well as concerns about sometimes serious complications among those vaccinated in the military. A variety of complications have been reported, including nervous system and autoimmune disorders, Nass said.

“Really, the core question is ‘Why? Why test?’,” said Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, a Washington-based advocacy group for children. “We don’t want to be subjecting kids to risks needlessly.”

Anthrax is a bacteria that causes an infectious disease that is either cutaneous, respiratory or gastrointestinal. According to the National Institute of Health, up to 20 percent of people who are infected through contact with skin and do not get treatment may die. Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections can be more serious. Currently, the vaccine is widely distributed to those who work in bioterrorism or members of the military that are deployed for 15 days or more in areas like the Middle East.

[H/T Gizmodo]

Comments (41)

  • LiveforFreedom
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:56am

    Over my dead body! I and many other Vets that are going through the New Jersey Golf War Clinic have many unexplained illnesses, and one of the reason could be this vaccine!! There are so many of U.S. in the Country no one has given the exact numbers to the public, and the sad thing is I truily think they don’t know the exact numbers!

    I meet with a Veterans Healthcare Medical Group with the VA Twice a year, and more amd more of U.S. have unexplained illnesses, women have more throat and thyroid cancers!! And they are told by the medical experts that they don’t know the reason behind the illnesses!

    Way to many unanswered questions out there before giving a vaccine that is not FDA approved to our children!!!

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    • paulusmaximus
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:50am

      As a Vietnam Vet I have had a thyroid problem for the past 25yrs now diabetic and still think I am one of the lucky ones. As proof check how many of us are are still alive from the 60s!

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    • lukerw
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:08pm

      Remember the Abomb tests… where troops were ordered into a Ditch? Who knows what is in Military Food or Shots? If you totally trust any Government… you are “special”!

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  • NateG
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:57am

    I’m a resipiant of the anthrax vaccine, twice on two different occasions before even being FDA approved. My health and quality of life have not been the same since; I used to be a Marine in great shape, now the V.A comes up with every excuse they can to try and convince me its something else.

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    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:23am

      Try reminding them that they said same thing about Agent Orange after Vietman.

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  • Raisingmy3boysright
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:43am

    Our Military that goes over to the Middle East get this vaccine. My husband was told he could never give blood because of it because and because of where he was stationed. My kids won‘t be getting this one because not enough people have gotten it and I don’t believe enough studies were done.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:46am

      There’s NO WAY in Hades my kids will be getting this “vaccine.” If it’s so harmless for children, then Malia and Sasha should be first in line to get it. You know, to set a good example. Oh, that’s right. Obumbler and his kin don‘t want to lead from the front as they don’t know how…..

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    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:27am

      Good idea, BH23. A small add-in, they must be inoculated LIVE on national television.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:23am

    PRAY, “Guys!” Pray 24/7/365. Make our every breath a prayer for GOD’s intervention.

    Note, it says “children”. I am well over 60, yet I am my parents’ “child”. Any of us are experimental labs walking around for them, esp. the very young, the uneducated, the old and the infirm.

    PRAY!

    May GOD bless us mightily, place HIS guardian angels all around us and keep us right by HIS side. Always dependent upon HIM, now we see more clearly that need for reliance.

    Am sending this article on to our children this very morning.

    COURAGE for the battle in JESUS’ name, amen.

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  • Carol Ingian
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:18am

    Since the National Biodefense Science Board is voting on this, let them bring in their own children and grandchildren first .

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:34am

      Agree! Watch out for non-vaccines (an immune system booster, vitamins, etc.) if the left offer up their children first. It looks like the vaccine, comes in a labeled bottle that says it’s vaccine, the children smile while receiving the fake vaccine.

      Then, we line our children up so we will be good little communists. NOT!!!

      Remember, if the left is awake, it is lying, destroying perverting.

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    • Countrygirl1362
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:56am

      Start the testing with Obama’s children, his administration, if his people feel it is so safe, use his children to prove it, then all the other administration’s children.

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  • Ron Staiger
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:56am

    Test the children in Kenya

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    • yberman
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:14am

      Ron are you kidding me!!!!

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:27am

      Testing it on ANY children is wrong. A child can’t give permission, they can’t make an informed decision. Unless it’s medically necessary, I say forget it. You ain’t testing it on my child.

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:35am

      I got it! : )

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    • paulusmaximus
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:54am

      They are more likely to come in contact with Anthrax then children here. If it’s so good that would be a act of kindness.

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  • carbonyes
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:35am

    Obama has already crossed the line into the treasonous arena of becoming a traitor. He did this even before he threw his hat into the Presidential race of 2008. He has begun to implement his treasonous, destructive policies. It remains to be seen how long it will take for the real leaders of America to get the backbone and balls to take up impeachment proceedings, not just to remove him from office, but to throw the Impostor-in-Chief into prison. They would have the subpoena power to obtain his sealed records which absolutely never should have been permitted to be sealed in the first place. He most likely never would have been permitted to run for president had the content been known beforehand.

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  • Founding Father2
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:14am

    Talking about the Fed… Lets talk about the Federal Reserve. Is Ron Paul backpedaling on that issue… FLIP FLOPPING?

    Now he is saying he doesn’t want to end the fed: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/oct/paul_flip_fed.html . You may say like the interviewers said that he wants to do it later on, but he would not say that directly.

    Looks like there are more than 3 flip floppers in the GOP race.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:57am

    little white Christian and Jewish and Special Needs kids in Conservative American families are the frst ones on obama’s T4 list to euthanize. they’re too young to be working drones and they are raised with American values.

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  • Ex-Democrat
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:47am

    Over my dead body.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:50am

      ok

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    • Ex-Democrat
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:59am

      And your attempt would be the last thing you”d ever do on this earth.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:27am

      any democrat obamaites coming near this pure American family will never leave the ranch, that’s why we own backhoes and bulldozers…. and hogs. LOTS of hogs.

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  • darthtyran
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:06am

    NO NO NO… Do not let them give you or your children this shot. I was in the military and the devils in power injected me and thousands of soldiers with this poison. Not long after the first injection (which feels like a lit cigarette pressed against your skin.) I developed severe abdominal pain/spasms, joint pain, sleeping issues, and chronic fatigue. These symptoms have been linked to the vaccine for years. It was discontinued but our “buddy” Wild Bill Clinton reinstated it before he left office. Thousands of military personnel have the same symptoms and many credible medical agencies in the U.S. affirm the cause of these and many other medical difficulties is the vaccine. At one time U.S. farmers refused to take the vaccine due to associated medical calamities. To this day I am fighting the VA over these issues, its a carousel of insanity.
    (just to clarify: I served 20 years and by “devils” I mean those establishment politicians in the government who allowed this injection, knowing full well it would impair us later in life. I have nothing but respect for my fellow men and women in the Armed Forces serving honorably)

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:19am

      Cant stand to hear what you are going through im so sorry that these traitors to human life have this kind of power to destroy the very lives of people who would protect them, it is just sick! God bless you for your sacrafice and love,of your country you are awesom in my mind ………………………….

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:08am

      I was given Cipro in Gulf War I because they ran out of the vaccine. It worked fine as a prophylaxis. We also have antibiotics to treat anthrax as well as giving the Cipro to those suspected of coming in contact with it. There is no need to widely vaccinate anyone in CONUS (Stateside) or even in theatre. You’d be better off vaccinating folks against Lyme Disease which is a problem in some areas.

      Perhaps these are hearing chatter abt an anthrax attack? They just don’t want to raise alarms? I wonder…

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:12am

      I am sorry you are getting the runaround. I got the same kind of treatment fm the VA in NC. The TX VA bubbas were much better to work with.

      For those of us w/Gulf War syndrome, they tht we were all crazy or mental patients. One young Black soldier I was in hospital with said they tested her for an STD, while I the white officer was not tested. Now what does that tell you abt their scientific method? It tells me they are not scientists at all. They are only thinking down one line w/o regard to unintended consequences.

      I have no kids, but if I did, they would not receive the vaccine.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:33am

      make the obama-Govt give the anthrax to the obama brats FIRST.
      our younger USMC cousins had to have the shots and they are still suffering from side effects.

      don‘t let obama’s injections or vaccines anywhere near our AMERICAN children.
      teach your kids now asap, and read their school books yourselves too. protect your kids. our kids are not in his obamajugend and they know what ”obama-indoctrination” means too.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:30am

      Is that what caused the Gulf War syndrome? I read somewhere it was vaccines with adjavent ingredients added to it.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:36am

      I’ve told my 12 year old son if they pull any of this cr@p at school,he is to refuse to accept and call me immediately. This was in regards to the guardicil (however you spell that), but it covers all vaccines.

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  • DaveOregon
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Sounds like the dimbulbs of the 50′s are back – like when they exposed American cities to nuclear radiation; or soldiers and citizens of France to LSD; etc. You don’t test something like this on kids – you jackwagons! Their are numerous physiological reasons not to and the benefits – what benefit? It’s not like y our going after measles or polio- anthrax would only need to be tested on kids if the military/Fed’s intended to use an anthrax attack on the populace to allow for the imposition of marshall law. Sounds like a fiction novel – but with this administration and the “death panels” built into Obummercare – the Marxist/Nazi’s are bacccckkkk!

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:49pm

    Definitely, CATB! Sasha and Malia first! This adminstration sickens me!

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Test it on all the employees of the State Deparment, HHS, DOJ, DOE, Fannie and Freddie,and Congress instead!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:53pm

      Their kids and grandkids … they want to test kids.

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Not NO but he!! NO

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  • Dougral Supports Israel
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:41pm

    Don’t mess with our kids.

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  • CatB
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:40pm

    WTH .. . The Obama girls first. I am sick and tired of these do as I say not as I do “rulers” in the White House. No way would I let them near my child .. in fact I would warn my child about this .. just like strangers with candy.

    TEA!

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  • dmforman
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:36pm

    Not on my child! Over my dead body?

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    • booger71
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:38pm

      I agree,, need to test it Barry’s kids first

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