From the Public Citizen advocacy organization: November 1, 2011 The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius Secretary Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20201 RE: Proposed Clinical Trials Testing the Anthrax Vaccine on Children Dear Secretary Sebelius: Public Citizen, representing more than 225,000 members and supporters nationwide,…

Here is another blog post coming from the long NY Times article on our government’s response to the threat of bioterrorism.

Thanks to author Steven Salzberg, who worked sequencing anthrax for the FBI letters investigation, writing in Forbes : The anthrax vaccine is a truly bad idea. The U.S. has wasted billions of dollars on it, and it just seems to go from bad to worse. Now

Why did the most important trial to have been conducted on anthrax vaccine safety (by CDC between 2002 and 2007, with 1564 civilian subjects) only publish an interim report, and never discussed the 229 serious adverse events reported in trial participants.

From the NY Times , adapted by Global Security Newswire : … The nation’s preparations for a biological strike face numerous challenges, according to more than 100 interviews with high-level officials at participating federal entities such the National Institutes of Health and the White House, as well as the the…

From the Palm Beach Post : … While he is legally prohibited from revealing much of what he learned and many of the court documents are sealed, Weisser said he was stunned by the lack of security at the lab. In court papers, the government conceded that before the attacks,…

From the Scottish Press and Journal : Don’t panic, says Scottish government probe launched into drug batch Flu vaccine doses recalled in scare over side effects The Scottish Government is recalling thousands of flu vaccines over fears that the drug is making some people ill, the Press and Journal…

According to the FDA : As of 2008, an estimated 50 to 60 percent of prescription drugs used to treat children have been studied in some part of the pediatric population. Still, the likelihood that a medicine has actually been studied in neonates—children less than a month old—is close to…

Original Source of 1-2% of those receiving anthrax vaccine have had serious adverse events: Milvax and Vaccine Healthcare Centers