VACCINE

“Complaints about ... a mysterious muscle ailment
have prompted researchers to take a fresh look at the use of aluminum adjuvants ... This month,
as some 70 scientists gathered here for 2 days of often vigorous discussion of the findings about the muscle ailment,
a larger question hung over the gathering: Will aluminum be the next battleground in the vaccine wars?”
Science • May 2000
Public health: Aluminum is put on trial as a vaccine booster
Malakoff D.
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO—Complaints about vaccine safety and debate over a mysterious muscle ailment
have prompted researchers to take a fresh look at the use of aluminum adjuvants, which are used to cause the immune
system to react earlier, more potently, and more persistently to the antigen contained in the vaccine. This
month, as some 70 scientists gathered here for 2 days of often vigorous discussion of the findings about the muscle
ailment, a larger question hung over the gathering: Will aluminum be the next battleground in the vaccine wars?
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/288/5470/1323.summary?sid=82b7933f-c912-48c2-b2cf-40874fa78e61