Public health: Bush's smallpox vaccination plan

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 312-314

  Gray, Jennifer ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MILITARY MEDICINE; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIDE EFFECT; SMALLPOX; VACCINATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

BIOTERRORISM; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VACCINE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;

EID: 0642310398     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2003.tb00093.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Ibid. Id.
3. Ibid. Id.
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5. Ibid. Id.
6. "Conn. Smallpox Plan Could Be Revised," Associated Press, February 12, 2003, available at 〈http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/13/conn. smallpox.ap/〉.
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8. Ibid. Id.
9. Ibid. Id.
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12. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, supra note 7.
13. The exact locations where the two stocks are kept are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and the Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology, Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation. World Health Organization Executive Board 111th Session, Smallpox Eradication: Destruction of Variola Virus Stocks, Report by the Secretariat (December 23, 2002), available at 〈http://www.who.int/gb/ EB_WHA/PDF/WHA55/ea5521.pdf〉.
14. See Moyers, supra note 10.
15. See Meckler, supra note 4.
16. Ibid. Id.
17. Buckley and Cohen, supra note 1.
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19. Ibid. Id.
20. Id. See also Buckley and Cohen, supra note 1.
21. Meckler, supra note 4.
22. Ibid. Id.
23. Ibid. Id.
24. Ibid. Id.
25. Ibid. Id.
26. Ibid. Id.
27. Id. See also Department of Defense, Smallpox Vaccination Program, at 〈http://www.smallpox.army.mil/vaccine/sideEffects.asp〉 (last visited June 20, 2003).
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30. Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, Congress Passes Smallpox Vaccination Compensation Plan (April 14, 2003), at 〈http://www. cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/smallpox/news/apr1403compen.html〉.
31. Ibid. Id.
32. Ibid. Id.
33. Ibid. Id.
34. Ibid. Id.
35. See T.L. Schraeder and E.W. Campion, "Smallpox Vaccination - The Call to Arms," N. Engl. J. Med., 348 (2003): 381-82.
36. R.J. Blendon et al., "The Public and the Smallpox Threat," N. Engl. J. Med., 348 (2003): 426-32.
37. Buckley and Cohen, supra note 1.