I AM deeply alarmed at the news that many British service people and reservists in the Gulf are unwilling to submit themselves to inoculations. In particular, they are reluctant to undergo simultaneous vaccination against anthrax and smallpox.
Lewis Moonie, the junior defence minister, had told me last year that these injections would be spaced out. In the current haste to prepare for war it seems that this is no longer the case. I understand something of their reluctance as I remember well the precarious medical condition of several service people who fought in the last Gulf war. They had gone…
