Military personnel MUST refuse to take these vaccinations. The note and others like it have spread like the plague. A group of 23 sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier refused to take their shots and were demoted, the Pentagon said Thursday. The day before, the Air Force kicked out a recalcitrant airman. Some officers have resigned rather than take the vaccine.
Officials blame the Internet for infecting the rank and file.
That misinformation covers everything from darkling warnings that the vaccine is a UN plot to seize control to claims that it's to blame for the mysterious Gulf War syndrome. After all, many troops sent to the Gulf were immunized with anthrax vaccines. Other rumors insist the vaccine causes cancer or sterility. Perhaps what irks Pentagon brass the most is the persistent charge that the sole producer of its anthrax vaccine is guilty of sloppy manufacturing techniques. A US Food and Drug Administration report , available on the Internet, has been repeatedly forwarded as proof positive that the Michigan Biologic Products Institute, a state government agency formerly known as the Michigan Department of Public Health, cannot be trusted.