U.S. Troops To Combat Anthrax By Donating Plasma

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U.S. Troops To Combat Anthrax By Donating Plasma
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Big News Network.com Thursday 12th August, 2004

A new program starting Wednesday to develop a new defense against anthrax will depend on servicemembers' donated plasma.

The greatest number of the 1.2 million people vaccinated against anthrax – a deadly disease that can be used in biological warfare – is in the military. Their blood plasma – the straw-colored fluid part of the blood – can be used to make a new medication called anthrax immune globulin, said Army Col. John D. Grabenstein, the deputy director of the Military Vaccine Agency, in a telephone interview
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Maybe this was the whole idea in the first place