Smallpox

NIAID study results support diluting vaccine stockpile to stretch supply

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 23rd, 2002

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary has announced that results from a key clinical trial indicate that the existing U.S. supply of smallpox vaccine - 15.4 million doses - could successfully be diluted up to five times and retain its potency, effectively expanding the number of individuals it could protect from the contagious disease.

"The public health implications of this study are enormously important," said HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. "We now know that in the unlikely event of an intentional release of smallpox, our stockpile of smallpox vaccine can be expanded fivefold as we had planned. The success of this study puts us one step...

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