For those of you with contacts with military personnel (including women in
military who may be shipped out to various "hot spots"), the following
information may be of use to you.

At a conference I participated in mid-March, the question arose: will
vaccination to combat anthrax in any way affect a breastfeeding baby of a
mother who receives said vaccination?

Happily for those of us who did not know the answer, we were able to ask a
relative of one of the conference organizers.  He is a physician in
infectious disease.  He statesŠ the vaccine used by the (US) military is a
"killed vaccine" and shouldn't cause any problems at all with the child of
a nursing mother." This information was further verified by his pediatric
counterpart at the same medical center, who concurred in this conclusion.

Feel free to pass this information on to whomever might need it.

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