Protecting Americans: Smallpox Vaccination Program [Friday, December 13, 2002, 16:09 EST (4:09 PM EST)]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Description:
  Friday, December 13, 2002, 16:09 EST (4:09 PM EST)
  
  CDCHAN-00107-2002-12-13-UPD-N
  
  Today, the President announced a plan to better protect the American people against the threat of smallpox attack by hostile groups or governments.
  
  Under the plan, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will work with state and local governments to form volunteer Smallpox Response Teams who can provide critical services to their fellow Americans in the event of a smallpox attack.
  
  To ensure that Smallpox Response Team s can mobilize immediately in an emergency, health care workers and other critical personnel will be asked to volunteer to receive the smallpox vaccine.
  
  The federal government is not recommending vaccination for the general public at this time. There may be some members of the general public w ho insist on being vaccinated now. Our public health agencies will work to accommodate them, but that is not our recommendation at this time.
  
  
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• Subjects:
  Bioterrorism Health Personnel Immunization Programs/standards Public Health Practice/standards Smallpox/prevention & Control Smallpox Vaccine/administration & Dosage Vaccination/standards
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  HAN Health Alert Network
• Source:
  HAN ; 107
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Subseries:
  CDC Health Update
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Alert
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  00107
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
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