US expands smallpox vaccine plans
As many as 500,000 health care and emergency workers could receive vaccine.
Jul 8, 2002
ATLANTA — The US government may increase the number of healthcare and emergency workers to be vaccinated against smallpox, expanding on a more conservative plan put forth last month by experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) while stopping far short of vaccinating the entire population, according to officials.
On June 7,
Donald A. Henderson, chair of the Secretary's Council on Public Health Preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told the