Test of anthrax vaccine in children gets tentative OK

[wildbilln864]

Is this going forward? WTF!?

&quot Reuters) - A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might harm them."
more here.

[struggle4progress]

1. Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research

... In January 2012 Secretary Sebelius asked the Bioethics Commission to study the question of anthrax vaccine trials with children after receiving a recommendation from another federal committee that such research be initiated, pending ethical review. In this report the Bioethics Commission concluded that the federal government would have to take multiple steps before anthrax vaccine trials with children could be ethically considered. In addition to recommending that pre-event trials with children not go forward in the absence of further testing on adults, the Bioethics Commission clarifies other rigorous conditions that must be met before such pediatric research is ethically considered ...
http://bioethics.gov/node/833

Here's a pdf of the March 2013 report

[yeoman6987]

3. Anthrax Shots

I received the anthrax shots even though it was booed and hissed by quite a lot of people. So far nothing negative has come from it. Some people even decided to leave the military because of it. It is one of those things that many people had but so far so good.

[WinkyDink]

6. OFCSake---Anthrax is not a problem here!!!!!!!!!!! This is Mengele thinking!!!!

[newfie11]

2. How many kids in America have contracted anthrax?

Just wondering why there is a need for this vaccine.

[yeoman6987]

4. Need for vaccine

Well they must be afraid that we are going to have a chemical attack of some sort and want the children prepared. If we have one, they will survive. People in the military will survive, but if there is any worry about a chemical attack they need to vaccinate the entire population and not just certain segments. What is going to happen with all the children survive but the parents all die? That would be quite a mess.

[WinkyDink]

7. Again---This is VERY SICK thinking on the part of the authorities.

[Recursion]

5. I remember when I got the anthrax vaccine

"It's perfectly safe. No need to worry. Um... Don't handle food for 48 hours."

[Ian David]

8. I'm impressed!

I didn't know Anthrax invented a vaccine!

[johnnylefty2000]

10. hey is this your car

some teabagger posted the pic on his website. I've seen pics of your car on du before.

[Ian David]

9. If you're going to slash the budget of the FDA and stop inspecting the cattle, you MIGHT need this.