🚨 The military traded its flu vaccine mandate for ‘medical freedom’ – an outbreak quickly followed

Last updated: 25/06/2026 01:05

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🚨 Breaking Newsvia The Conversation

Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak leads several branches of the military to make it mandatory again.

This is a developing story.

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ByProf. Giorgi Pkhakadze

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Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian Medical Journal and Chair of the Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). He is Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at David Tvildiani Medical University, and Secretary/Treasurer of the UEMS Section of Public Health. ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.