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In Memory of Rachael Lacy

Oct, 2004

Soldier dies after smallpox vaccination
By Paul Meincke, ABC News, Chicago: April 9, 2003
A funeral was held today for a 22-year-old Army Reservist from the south suburbs. She was not a casualty of war, but died several days after receiving the smallpox vaccine.

Local reservist dies after smallpox shot
BY LAURI HARVEY, Northwest Indiana Times, April 9, 2003
LYNWOOD -- A 22-year-old Lynwood woman in the U.S. Army Reserves, who fell ill after receiving the smallpox vaccine, died Friday at the Mayo Clinic.

Doctor: Pentagon slow in vaccine death
By Mark Benjamin, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, Aug. 18, 2003
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A civilian doctor who took care of an Illinois soldier before she died in April says the Pentagon should have treated her death as possibly due to vaccine side effects, but may be hesitating because of the impact on the military's controversial smallpox and anthrax vaccine programs.

Military Mute On Vaccine Danger?
CBS News, Washington, Aug. 21, 2003
When Army Reservist Rachael Lacy got her military shots last spring, she became deathly ill in a matter of weeks. The coroner listed "recent smallpox and anthrax vaccination(s)" as contributors to her death.
Yet the military doesn't mention Lacy under "Noteworthy Adverse Events" in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association touting its smallpox vaccine success. It claims no deaths.
Editor's Note: But long before this, the new FDA label on the anthrax vaccine listed 6 deaths.

Written by: Kathy Hubbell

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