Bioterrorism

Public Health Executive Explores Making Vaccines Available To Public

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 11th, 2001

The executive director of the American Public Health Association, Mohammad N. Akhter, MD, MPH, has told a Senate committee that a national group of experts should be formed immediately to study the risks and benefits of making smallpox and anthrax vaccines available to the population at large in the event of a bioterrorist attack.

Akhter made his remarks while testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

"I was born and raised on the Indian subcontinent. I have lived through the outbreaks of smallpox, malaria, typhoid, hepatitis A and many other diseases," testified Akhter, former Public Health Commissioner in...

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