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White House: No flu vaccine for Gitmo detainees

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gestures during his daily press briefing at the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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The Associated Press Updated 7:41 PM Tuesday, November 3, 2009

WASHINGTON — The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not yet receiving vaccinations against the swine flu.

Robert Gibbs on Tuesday said concern that terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base in Cuba were receiving vaccines was misplaced. Gibbs says no vaccines are at the naval base and none are on the way. A spokesman for the U.S. jail facility a day earlier said guards andthen inmates were scheduled for inoculations. Critics were fast to object, saying U.S. civilians were waiting for vaccines while suspected terrorists were being given injections.

Army Maj. James Crabtree said Monday that doses should start arriving this month and medical personnel requested the doses. He said detainees will be vaccinated "entirely on a voluntary basis."

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November 04, 2009 12:36 AM EST

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