Bioterrorism Watch Archives – January 1, 2003
January 1, 2003
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Thorough screening of workers key to reducing risks of smallpox vaccine
Health care workers with HIV or a history of atopic dermatitis are at real risk of serious complications if they receive smallpox vaccine. But can they be safely screened out if as appears imminent 500,000 hospital workers are offered smallpox immunization? -
CDC lists contraindications for smallpox vaccination
The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices cites these contraindications for receipt of smallpox vaccine. -
Hospitals given leeway in forming smallpox teams
Hospitals will have considerable leeway to make their own decisions about who and how many health care workers will be immunized for smallpox if the government moves ahead as expected and offers the vaccine to medical personnel. -
High stakes, fast track: Bio R&D at a full gallop
An unprecedented federal investment in bioterrorism scientific research is leading to breakthroughs in vaccines, treatment, and diagnostics for a murders row of most-feared agents, one of the nations top bioterrorism researchers reported. -
Nature: The mother of all bioterrorism
While much fear and consternation swirls around the possibilities of bioterrorism, it is wise to remember that the greatest biological killers occur naturally in the form of emerging and reemerging infections.