News tagged with 'Anthrax Vaccine'

Police says an initial inquiry into white powder sent in a dozen envelopes to the WSJ lower Manhattan headquarters appears to be flour. Meanwhile the same day, Harvard's Alan Dershowitz received a similar envelope with the same postmark from Knoxville, Tenn. It too is being evaluated. No one was injured in either incident.

The editorial and executive offices of the Wall Street Journal in lower Manhattan received about 10 envelopes with mysterious white powder this afternoon, essentially shutting down most of the operations.  Hazardous materials teams are trying to figure out the substance. Since the 2001 anthrax poisonings, many hoax envelopes have been sent to media and financial institutions.

A new report released Tuesday by the General Accounting Office (GAO), a special investigative branch of Congress, says a high percentage of service members in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve are leaving their posts to avoid or delay receiving the mandatory anthrax vaccine. In May 2000, the GAO mailed

FDA today took the final actions necessary to allow the BioPort Corporation to begin routine distribution of licensed anthrax vaccine from its renovated facility. Today's action was the approval of a supplement to BioPort's biologics license approving Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC in Spokane, Wash., as a contract fi

According to a recent study conducted by the United States Navy, pregnant women inoculated with the now coveted anthrax vaccine may bear children with birth defects. Military officials said that while the study was not conclusive, the vaccine "may be associated with a higher risk of birth defects." Navy researchers p

This afternoon, the Food and Drug Administration completed the pre-approval inspection of the BioPort facility in Lansing, Mich. An inspection report (FD-483) was issued to the firm, and it contained seven inspectional observations that needed to be addressed. BioPort satisfactorily addressed many of these observations

Although critics claim that BioPort Corporation's anthrax vaccine has injured many people and killed others, experts say that lawsuits against the company are unlikely to succeed. BioPort is the United States' sole supplier of anthrax vaccine. In light of recent anthrax hysteria, the military has deemed the vaccin