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Iraq II: Army Examining Possible Role of Vaccines in Pneumonia Outbreak The U.S. Army is planning to examine the possible role of vaccinations against diseases such as anthrax as officials study recent pneumonia cases among U.S. soldiers in Iraq and southwestern Asia, an official said yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 6). “Among all of the possible causes or contributing factors, we are looking at the immunizations that the soldiers received as well,” said Col. Robert DeFraites of the Army Surgeon General’s Office. “It is premature to say that there is any relationship at all,” he said. John Sever of the George Washington University’s medical school, a co-author of a study that examined the possible side effects of the anthrax vaccine, has also said the Army should examine if the vaccine has played any role in the pneumonia cases. That study found that the vaccine might have been the cause of two earlier pneumonia cases, according to the Washington Times (Mark Benjamin, Washington Times, Aug. 7).
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