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...France -- probably possess samples of the smallpox virus, a U.S. official said. Al-Qaida...also believed to have sought samples of smallpox for weaponization, but U.S. officials...is capable of mounting an attack with smallpox. Evidence recovered in Afghanistan pointed...
...department, but suddenly his work with smallpox is water-cooler conversation. Sherman...federal grant to develop a drug against smallpox. Until the anthrax reality hit the United...But now there are renewed fears that smallpox, which was eradicated 24 years ago...
...administration says it will have enough smallpox vaccine on hand within a year to inoculate...administered four days after exposure to smallpox and still offer protection and because...House and across America," he said. Smallpox hasn't occurred in the United States...
...Three-fifths of Americans say they would want a smallpox vaccination if it were widely available...they are concerned about the threat of a smallpox attack and think last month's anthrax...U.S. government is stockpiling the smallpox vaccine in case of terrorist attacks...
...and elsewhere are reluctant to get smallpox vaccine. But Michael Osterholm also...employees. "I can guarantee you that if smallpox were to hit anywhere in the world today, there would be a mad rush for smallpox vaccine," said Osterholm, a University...
...and preschoolers be vaccinated against smallpox, a study to test the best children's...unless a bioterrorist attacks with smallpox. After research oversight boards reached...inoculate 40 2- to 5-year-olds with smallpox vaccine. They would be the first children...
...million people in less than a week if smallpox breaks out anywhere in the world. In...health officials also plan to offer the smallpox shot over the next few months to about...report on the public health response to a smallpox biological attack. The Star Tribune...
Q: What is smallpox and why is it so worrisome? A: Smallpox is a highly contagious virus that is spread from person...and there is no known treatment. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949, and routine vaccinations...
...about 85 million doses of 40-year-old smallpox vaccine to the federal government, as...they stress that the likelihood of a smallpox attack remains low, the highly contagious...Current policy calls for stockpiling smallpox vaccine and tapping that reserve only...
...inoculate civilians and the military against smallpox, a disease eradicated decades ago but...with proposals to eventually offer the smallpox vaccine to all Americans, beginning...move ahead. A once-feared disease, smallpox historically killed 30 percent of its...