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Feds Prepare for Smallpox Quarantine Federal Officials Ready Plan for Quarantine in Case of Smallpox The Associated Press A T L A N T A, July 8 — Federal health officials are quietly making plans for quarantining Americans who might be exposed to a highly contagious smallpox patient, addressing sensitive questions of how to hold people, possibly against their will, in case of a bioterror attack. The planning, still in draft form, addresses complex logistical and policy questions, including where people would be kept while waiting for officials to confirm a smallpox case and, if necessary, administer vaccinations."It's not pretty...

The federal government will soon vaccinate roughly a half-million health care and emergency workers against smallpox as a precaution against a bioterrorist attack, federal officials said. The government is also laying the groundwork to carry out mass vaccinations of the public — a policy abandoned 30 years ago — if there is a large outbreak. Until last month, officials had said they would soon vaccinate a few thousand health workers and would respond to any smallpox attack with limited vaccinations of the public. Since 1983, only 11,000 Americans who work with the virus and its related diseases have received a...

Source: Science 296 (5573), May 31, 2002, p. 1594.BIOTERRORISM:In Search of a Kinder, Gentler Vaccineby Martin EnserinkJames Koopman saw the last 16 cases of smallpox in the Indian district of Azhagar in the early 1970s, but by now they blur together. Crystal clear, however, is the memory of a child, about 1 year old, who suffered from an uncontrollable infection called progressive vaccinia after receiving a smallpox vaccination in 1973. "It completely destroyed her arm, right down to the bone," says Koopman, now a researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.To Koopman, that girl is a grim reminder...

What should I know about Smallpox? Vaccination is not recommended, and the vaccine is not available to health providers or the public. In the absence of a confirmed case of smallpox anywhere in the world, there is no need to be vaccinated against smallpox. There also can be severe side effects to the smallpox vaccine, which is another reason we do not recommend vaccination. In the event of an outbreak, the CDC has clear guidelines to swiftly provide vaccine to people exposed to this disease. The vaccine is securely stored for use in the case of an outbreak. In addition,...

June 21, 2002 Panel Rejects Immunizing All Against a Smallpox OutbreakBy LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN TLANTA, June 20 — A panel of specialists advising the federal government on smallpox vaccinations unanimously rejected a proposal today to offer vaccines to every American. Instead, the panel recommended immunizing only the estimated 15,000 health care and law enforcement workers who would be most likely to respond to a biological attack and come in contact with victims. In rejecting the idea of starting mass vaccinations for the first time since routine immunization was halted in 1972, the panel said the risks of complications from the...

Article exposes the machinations of America's most active traitor and anthrax hoaxer, Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, aka Dr. Strangelove, who has just begun yet another of her periodic agitprop campaigns.

<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are meeting behind closed doors on June 19-20 to determine policy about the U.S. stockpile of smallpox vaccine-this after having four open forums to solicit public opinion and input. First of all, four hastily put together and not well-advertised (hence, poorly attended) forums in New York, San Francisco, San Antonio, and St. Louis hardly constitutes a wellspring of public input. But the CDC apparently prefers it that way.</p>

In 1971, a Soviet biological weapons test caused an outbreak of smallpox in a nearby town, and three deaths. The accident, confirmed for the first time, suggests the current smallpox vaccine would work against the smallpox used in Soviet weapons, the type thought most likely to have fallen into terrorist hands.The report was presented on Saturday to a US government committee advising on whether authorities should offer smallpox vaccinations to the public amid growing fears of bioterrorism. Their decision is expected this week.Smallpox has been extinct in the wild since 1980. In 1959, universal vaccination had driven it from...

MARILYN CHASE, The Wall Street JournalFriday, May 17, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/05/17/financial0952EDT0048.DTL (05-17) 06:52 PDT (AP) -- What would happen if another bioterrorist struck the U.S.? Probably the same confusion, fear and uncoordinated response that happened during last fall's anthrax attacks. Federal and state plans to respond to bioterrorism have run up against civil libertarians and a host of others who worry their rights will be trampled. Even some hospital groups have fought against plans for bioterror attacks because they don't want contagious patients in their facilities. Just seven months ago, when anthrax was killing people and closing...

ASHINGTON, March 22 — The United States has discovered a laboratory under construction near Kandahar, Afghanistan, where American officials believe Al Qaeda planned to develop biological agents, officials said today.According to a confidential assessment by the United States Central Command, the laboratory was intended to produce anthrax. The assessment was presented to senior American officials in recent days and is based on documents and equipment found at the site.No biological agents were found in the laboratory, which was still under construction when it was abandoned. American intelligence officials still believe that Al Qaeda would need assistance from foreign experts...

*EPF502 03/20/98 TEXT: OPIC 3/19 PRESS RELEASE ON NEW AGREEMENT WITH VIETNAM (Agreement key to reopening OPIC's Vietnam programs) (950) Washington -- The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) signed a new bilateral agreement with Vietnam March 19, thus clearing one of the final hurdles to re-opening OPIC's programs in that country, according to a March 19 OPIC press release. "The OPIC Agreement is a concrete step toward building normal economic relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam," OPIC President and CEO George Munoz said. "It is truly an historic moment and I am honored to be...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US government agency and Citigroup Inc. are backing a 200-million-dollar plan that would guarantee payment to companies importing goods into war-torn Iraq (news - web sites), it was reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority governing Iraq would pledge to use Iraqi oil revenues to cover any losses incurred by Citigroup or the US federal Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC). "The plan, led by the federal Overseas Private Investment Corp., has raised some eyebrows inside the (US) administration because it comes just a few months before the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority...

I could have used the word government instead of my creative typo as the title but this is about a giveaway program to foreign nations that may just bite us even worse than the Savings and Loan disaster of a few years ago.  For quite a few years now companies have been investing in China.  This should not be news to anyone who shops or reads any economic news.  The exact size of the American investments in China I do not have an accurate measurement on yet but I did not wish to delay a first thread until I finished...

OPIC and Those Who Say It Is Nothing     I have had to face it.  I can be very obstinate when I am told to do something.  Oh I have obeyed orders of those duly appointed over me but when people tell me to give up doing something without any real reason I start to question a whole lot more.  It is now Wednesday on Sunday I started writing threads about the Overseas Private Investment Company “an agency of the US government.”  This agency it seems is devoted to pledging the full faith and credit of the US...

George Soros: A chance for soft power in the Balkans By George Soros Published: May 22 2003 20:43 | Last Updated: May 22 2003 20:43      Yet the Balkans are a vital part of Europe. The US has made clear its intention to diminish its involvement in the region, so the European Union must take the lead. In the past, the EU has responded to negative developments; now it must articulate a positive vision.   Fighting in the Balkans has subsided but future peace is far from assured. Kosovo remains unresolved; the union between Serbia and Montenegro is tenuous...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 — In a novel legal action, the City Councils of Oakland, Calif., and Boulder, Colo., have voted to join Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace in a lawsuit charging two federal agencies with failing to conduct environmental reviews before financing projects that the cities say contribute to global warming. The lawsuit contends that the agencies — the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation — have provided $32 billion in financing and insurance over the last 10 years for fossil-fuel extraction projects overseas like oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants without assessing the contribution those...