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05/20/2012

Anthrax vaccine trial meets bioethicists

External Link - Source: Nature

An anthrax vaccine would protect civilians from the long-term effects of a bioterrorist attack. But there’s no telling how children would react to the shots. To assess the ethics of a trial, in which kids would get an anthrax vaccine unlikely to ever be necessary, a federal committee met today in Washington DC.

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