ACIP Members Laugh

at News of Vaccine-Damaged Soldiers

"At the . . . Atlanta meeting of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee, ACIP Chairman Sam Katz and other ACIP members heard a Navy spokesman report that Marine recruits were not given typhoid vaccine before basic training, but rather after basic training, because when given typhoid vaccine '. . . the recruits dropped like flies . . .' and that the severity and frequency of reaction to typhoid vaccine interfered with basic training. This report evoked not concern, but laughter from (some of those) at the conference table."

(From a letter written by Toni Morris, in Hilary Butler's new book on vaccines, Just a Little Prick (2006) butler@watchdog.net.nz)