Smallpox
Vaccine decision ahead
Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 10th, 2002
The killer has not infected a human in more than two decades, and the U.S. government's current policy is to vaccinate only the handful of lab workers and scientists who work with the virus in high-security laboratories.
But September 11 and the anthrax attacks heightened fears that terrorists could somehow get their hands on smallpox and release it, potentially killing thousands of people.
A panel of 15 health experts met in Atlanta, Georgia, the week of June 17, 2002, to debate whether to expand the...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2002-07-10)
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