Two weeks ago, the controversial anthrax vaccine which has not been fully tested for safety, became mandatory for the military. Since then, Meryl Nass, MD, (AHRP board member) has received numerous requests for help and information from military personnel who refuse to be vaccinated with this controversial vaccine.

The military has issued an unsigned, anonymous "informational brochure" filled with misinformation about the anthrax vaccine. The very fact that no one in the military wants "credit" for this document should raise red flags about its veracity!

Dr. Nass has appended the DOD "informational brochure" with relevant facts, additional information, comments and copious references about the Surveillance Program for Short-term Health Effects of AVA and Surveillance Program for Long-term Health Effects of AVA. She demonstrates how the DOD misrepresents the findings of several vaccine safety studies.

For example, Dr. Nass writes: Military medical providers have been loathe to file anthrax vaccine adverse event reports due to perceived adverse effects on their careers if they do so. This probably stems from the instruction to medical providers NOT to report adverse events unless the patient missed more than 24 hours of work, was hospitalized, or contamination of an entire lot of vaccine was suspected.

Therefore, after changing this guidance in response to Congressional testimony about the failures to file, repeated instructions to file these reports by top military leaders have been issued to providers in 1999, 2000 and 2004. This would suggest that military medical providers continued to fail to file the reports.

See complete annotated document at: [ Link ]

Contact: Meryl Nass, MD Mount Desert Island Hospital Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 207 288-5081 ext. 220