Bioterrorism Watch Archives – July 1, 2003
July 1, 2003
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Plague in the Big Apple: Rare cases trigger bioterrorism response
When a rare and deadly infection suddenly appears out of time and place, todays clinician cannot exclude the possibility of bioterrorism. A case of plague (Yersinia pestis) had not been seen in New York City in more than a century. In November 2002, there appeared not one case, but two. -
Plague primer: Bioterror predictors for Black Death
Since plague (Yersinia pestis) was introduced into the United States in the San Francisco Bay area in 1900, there have been a total of 941 confirmed human cases recorded through the year 2000. -
IOM: Time to hit pause on smallpox vaccinations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention temporarily should suspend its smallpox vaccination programs and conduct an evaluation and reassessment of the effort before vaccine is offered to larger groups of health care workers, a special panel of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC, recommends. -
IOM cites litany of reasons in urging CDC stoppage
The Institute Medicine advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pause its smallpox immunization efforts to permit time for the following developments. -
Pregnant pause: Vaccinia given despite screening
More than 100 pregnant women have been exposed inadvertently to smallpox vaccine since immunization programs began in U.S. hospitals, the military, and clinical trials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. -
Pregnancies missed in all immunization programs
The breakdown of pregnant women inadvertently vaccinated in smallpox immunization programs is as follows.