Yet another example of how this administration is trying to do everything quick and dirty.
http://tinyurl.com/3ls26
"Major screw-up": Boot-camp virus runs rampant
Seattle Times Special Report
By Michael J. Berens
Seattle Times staff reporter
More than three decades ago, the Pentagon created two pills to ward off a lethal virus infecting boot-camp recruits. But defense officials abandoned the program in 1996 as too expensive. Now recruits are dying, thousands are falling ill, and the military is desperately racing to bring back a vaccine it once owned.
A top Pentagon official called it "a major screw-up," hobbling U.S. efforts to rapidly deploy troops abroad.
The respiratory virus now infects up to 2,500 service members monthly -- a staggering 1 in 10 recruits -- in the nation's eight basic-training centers, an analysis of military health-care records shows.