Anthrax vaccine is actually safer than most routine vaccines

Report from BBC News:

"Anthrax jabs declined by thousands of British troops serving in the war on Iraq are safe and cause only mild side-effects, research has found.
Ministry of Defence figures show that up to 12 March, almost half the servicemen and women sent to the Gulf had refused the jab amid fears of a repeat of Gulf War Syndrome."

"But the latest study suggests just 11% of military personnel immunised against anthrax develop reactions and in most cases these are confined to soreness or swelling around the site of injection."

The point, however, is that nobody believes what the government says anymore, a mood only strengthened by the war. So, I'll bet the reaction from many to this report will be to dismiss it as tainted.