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Other Deployment-Related Ideas
Phil Gunby
JAMA. 2000;283:1680.
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In a series of reports, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council also are saying that military anthrax immunization needs more attention, specifically for developing a second-generation version requiring fewer doses.
This recommendation is one of several being offered (at the Pentagon's request) to better protect US military members as the services are called on more and more often to conduct peacekeeping, humanitarian, and possibly even war-fighting missions all over the globe with fewer and fewer people.
Other recommendations include improved testing of equipment designed to protect against chemical and biological warfare agents. (So far, the Pentagon has found that many, perhaps all, of 778,000 protective suits intended to shield US troops from gas or germ attacks have holes or other defects.) The reports also urge that full-time active duty, reserve, and recently discharged military personnel have an annual health evaluation to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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