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WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge hearing a lawsuit filed against the military over mandatory anthrax inoculations has indicated he may rule against the Defense Department.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who will decide in coming weeks whether to halt the obligatory anthrax shots, said Tuesday he had significant doubts about whether the federal government has enough scientific evidence to show the anthrax vaccine required for military personnel is either safe or effective, the Washington Post reported.
More than 1 million U.S. troops have been given the anthrax vaccine since the program became mandatory in 1998, many of them in preparation for duty in Iraq, but hundreds have refused the vaccine out of fear of harmful, even fatal, side effects.
The judge expressed his doubts on the safety and effectiveness in a hearing on a lawsuit filed in March 2003 by six anonymous members of the U.S. military.
Sullivan also criticized the government's review of the vaccine as "one of the most jumbled, confusing" processes he had ever seen.
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