Some days they're good and some days are really bad. The army's Surgeon General, Ronald Blanck, says only a very small number of people have had that kind of reaction. Nonetheless, we look very carefully at each and every one. But Groll and other opponents say there are hundreds of people who have had serious medical complications, and they claim the Pentagon doesn't do a good job of tracking them. So vaccine opponents have tried to spread their beliefs about the dangers of the vaccine in a vast Internet campaign.
Military officials say that has created a problem.
Bioport has a questionable safety record with the federal Food and Drug Administration. The FDA refused the NewsHour's request for an on-camera interview, but documents show the FDA threatened to revoke Bioport's license to make anthrax vaccine in 1997. However, the army's surgeon general says the Pentagon has determined the vaccine to be safe. We did safety testing. We did purity testing.