Sentences with phrase «anthrax trial»

The working group began considering a pediatric anthrax trial back in the spring at the government's request.

And that's where some worry that the proposed anthrax trial fails to meet ethical standards.

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That's because a trial like this one is almost without precedent in modern medical research: It involves giving children a vaccine that is almost certain not to benefit them, and that might harm them, all to protect other children from an unlikely scenario — a large - scale anthrax attack.

Although the case never went to trial because of Ivins's suicide on 29 July 2008, FBI officials have claimed that the evidence against him is indisputable and that he carried out the mailings using anthrax stolen from a flask at USAMRIID.

In World War II, the British trials of anthrax infection on Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland rendered the island uninhabitable for almost 50 years.