Posted on 04/01/2002 7:33:38 PM PST by goody2shooz
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In a major shift in public health policy that underscores government concerns about bioterrorism, federal health officials are gathering enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate the entire country and are considering a widespread vaccination campaign.
By December, according to public health leaders in Washington D.C., the U.S. government will have more than 100 million doses of the vaccine in hand, an amount they say could be effectively diluted to make the shots available to everyone in the country. An inoculation effort using the sometimes risky vaccine would be new to millions of Americans born after the United States stopped offering the shots in 1972.
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I would agree but this is a twenty year old thread.
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