The state's largest public hospital will not participate in a massive public health campaign to vaccinate hundreds of front-line hospital workers against smallpox. Grady officials announced Dec. 16 that the hospital will back away from the Georgia Division of Public Health's voluntary vaccination program for health-care workers, set to roll out as early as late January. "Grady has balanced the known dangers of the smallpox vaccine, which can in some instances cause serious side effects, against the unlikely risk of exposure to the smallpox virus," said Grady spokesperson Karen Frashier, in a press release. "As a result, Grady will not...