Guest guest Posted March 13, 1999 Report Share Posted March 13, 1999 This was the end of the briefing I just posted. I assume the senior military officer answering questions is ASG Blanck. >Source: Department of Defense >http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May1998/x05281998_x0522mfp.html > >Background Briefing - Friday, May 22, 1998 - 2 p.m. >Subject: Update on Medical Force Protection Programs > >Q: If I worked in a slaughterhouse and I wanted to get an anthrax course, I >could just go do that, >right? > >A: Uh huh. > >Q: Just go to my doctor and for $20... > >A: That's right. You can describe that procedure. > >A: Because I currently own the production line and literally the vast >majority of the anthrax vaccine >in the U.S. Normally what occurs, veterinarians in some cases take the >anthrax shot. Wool sorters >take the shot. There are other specialized folks... > >Q: Bull? > >A: Wool sorters. You can pick it up cutaneously from sheep. > >What they will do is they will come into Department of Defense; we will >release doses of that >particular vaccine. The actual requests are very low each year. Most people >who are taking it are >on their maintenance which means they're taking one shot a year. They've >already had the initial six. >It's not a big demand on the system, and that's how we currently handle it. > >Colonel Bridges: If there are no further questions for the first two senior >military officers, then I >would like to have the third one come up and talk about the reserve >integration. -- Meryl Nass, M.D. Parkview Hospital, Brunswick, Maine 04011 email mnass@... phone (207) 865-0875 fax (207) 865-6975 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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