Headline : HHS proposes smallpox vaccination compensation plan

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Wednesday, March 05, 2003, 20 :44 EST (08 :44 PM EST)
  
  CDCHAN-00116-03-03-05-UPD-N
  
  HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today proposed a plan to create a smallpox vaccination compensation program to provide benefits to public health and medical response team members who are injured as a result of receiving the smallpox vaccine. It is based on a similar compensation package that is currently available to police officers and firefighters.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Bioterrorism/prevention & Control Disability Evaluation Eligibility Determination Insurance, Liability Mass Vaccination Smallpox Vaccine
• Source:
  HAN ; 116
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Update
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  116
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
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