Connecticut State Attorney General to Challenge Anthrax Vaccine License

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State Attorney General to Challenge Anthrax

Vaccine

License

Connecticut State Attorney General

Blumenthal plans to challenge

the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's

licensing of the anthrax vaccine for

use in the military.

Blumenthal said he will use evidence supplied

by two former Connecticut Air

National Guard pilots that suggests the vaccine

has not been proven safe or

effective. The two former pilots, Russ Dingle

and Rempfer, resigned

from the Guard in January 1999 because the

Guard would not accept their

findings about the vaccine.

Dingle and Rempfer, now majors in the Air Force

Reserve, are leaders in a

national protest against the vaccine.

The two pilots have given Blumenthal federal

documents indicating the vaccine

is inappropriate for mass inoculations.

''These documents raise profoundly serious and

significant questions as to the

legality of the FDA licenses, and hence the use

of the vaccine,'' Blumenthal

said. ''There seems to be important flaws in

licenses relating to both the

product and the equipment, and these issues

have never been directly

addressed by the Department of Defense or the

FDA.''

Blumenthal said Connecticut could be held

liable by people who get sick from

the vaccine.

The anthrax vaccine was originally licensed

federally in 1970 for use by

veterinarians and wool workers who touched

diseased animals.

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to

inoculate 2.4 million armed services

personnel with the vaccine to protect them from

potential airborne anthrax

spores used by enemy states or terrorists.

The inoculations began in 1998. But in July,

vaccine supplies dwindled so

drastically that only those assigned to

Southeast Asia are still being

vaccinated.

The Defense Department maintains that it has

proven the vaccine to be safe

and effective and that it is abiding by FDA

regulations, agency spokesman

C. said.

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