IRAQ

UPI: Army weighs vaccine link in troops' death

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The Army will consider whether the anthrax
or other vaccine could be causing a cluster of pneumonia cases among
soldiers in Iraq and southwestern Asia, an official said Wednesday. Col. Robert
DeFraites of the Army Surgeon General's office told United Press
International that the Pentagon would look into whether vaccines, among
other factors, might have triggered the pneumonia that has killed two
soldiers and sickened 100. "Among all of the possible causes or
contributing factors, we are looking at the immunizations that the
soldiers received as well," DeFraites told UPI Wednesday. "It is premature to
say that there is any relationship at all."