U.S. Navy Widens Anthrax, Smallpox Vaccinations

The U.S. Navy has initiated its plan to give anthrax and smallpox vaccinations to Navy and Marine personnel and some civilian workers working near locations including Iran, Afghanistan and the Korean Peninsula, Inside Defense reported yesterday (see GSN, June 30).

A Sept. 1 order issued by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark begins implementing a Defense Department plan announced June 30. The order extends Central Command’s anthrax and smallpox vaccination programs to every country within the command’s responsibility.

U.S. Pacific Command is also to begin vaccinating military personnel assigned to the Korean Peninsula for 15 days or more, according to Clark. According to Clark’s memo, other locations involved in the expansion are: Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Thomas Duffy, Inside Defense, Sept. 8).

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