Doctor: Pentagon slow in vaccine death

[huckleberry]

Possible explanation for mysterious pneumonia type deaths of soldiers in Iraq??


WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A civilian doctor who took care of an Illinois soldier before she died in April says the Pentagon should have treated her death as possibly due to vaccine side effects, but may be hesitating because of the impact on the military's controversial smallpox and anthrax vaccine programs.

The death of Rachael Lacy, 22, of Lynwood, Ill., has taken on added significance because she died without ever being deployed, but had pneumonia. The Army is investigating pneumonia cases in Iraq and Southwest Asia that have sickened more than 100 solders and killed two - but has excluded Lacy's case in its search for a cause because she died before arriving there.

Lacy died April 4 after what a doctor and her family said was heart and lung trouble, including pneumonia, which started soon after her March 2 vaccinations.

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The Pentagon has not publicly mentioned vaccines as a possible culprit, but has noted the sandy, dusty conditions in Iraq.

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Last week, the parents of two soldiers wrote Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seeking an investigation into their sons' deaths after getting pneumonia while deployed in Iraq.

"We as a family are concerned that we are not being told the truth," say the similar Aug. 12 letters to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, facilitated by the National Gulf War Resource Center, a veterans' advocacy group.


more at
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030818-060641-9420r

Edited to add:

Read the families' letters here
http://www.ngwrc.org/article.asp?id=221

[w4rma]

1. BINGO! This Doctor needs to be listened to.

And BushCo needs to quit covering for the big corporation(s) that makes this vaccine and worry about the health of American soldiers, instead.