Science        
4 November 2011 vol 334, issue 6056, pages 553-728
http://www.sciencemag.org/current.dtl

News & Analysis – Bioterror Research
Panel Endorses Anthrax Vaccine Study in Children
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

Should children be enrolled in a clinical trial of the anthrax vaccine, which is almost certain not to help them and may harm them? Or should the U.S. government gamble and wait for a possible attack before exposing children to the vaccine for the very first time? Last week, the full National Biodefense Science Board voted 12–1 in favor of a trial assuming its ethics are approved by a review board, saying that it was too uneasy to risk a mass science experiment on thousands of children after a bioterror strike, even if some consider that possibility remote.