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Acting Undersecretary of Defense Charles Cragin’s statement, “The fact is that this vaccine [anthrax] is as safe as other commonly used vaccines,” demands a rebuttal. Vaccine adverse reaction reports on file with our federal government, which number 95,103 since 1990, beg the question, how safe are vaccines?

Added to this ever-growing number, which public-health bureaucrats label coincidences, are more than $1 billion paid out to petitioners in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The growing concern among service people is that the major threat to their well-being comes from the Department of Defense anthrax vaccine defense. Where are the long-term anthrax vaccine safety studies?