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...Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a warning March 13 advising that non-essential trips to Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, China and Hanoi, Vietnam be postponed until at least the end of June...
...hard data that any terrorist group actually possesses the virus. Debate has also centered on the most effective way to contain a smallpox event should we experience one. A number of public health officials, such as Dr. William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have speculated that a program to rapidly vaccinate contacts after an exposure might be more effective in controlling the spread of smallpox than a program aimed at vaccinating millions of Americans prior to an event. Dr. Foege, who was director of the CDC during the time that smallpox was finally...
...smallpox vaccination program will be determined by events yet to unfold. If substantial numbers of vaccinees experience serious side effects, or if a number of secondary cases appear in family members or patients, it is likely that the program will never be widely accepted by the medical community. The CDC recently added additional restrictions on individuals who could receive vaccination after four experienced heart attacks, three of them with fatal outcomes. On the other hand, if another bioterrorist event occurs within the United States it is likely that many more healthcare workers, as well as members of the public, will...
Almost everybody who had an interest in the situation was represented there that pleasant summer Tuesday in Washington, including gay-community leaders, federal bureaucrats and the investigative team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had taken a lead role in tracking the situation. What was it? A disease that just 13 months earlier had blipped on the CDC's radar screen was rapidly turning epidemic, particularly among gay men and drug addicts. Yet no one agreed on what to call it. Because the disease critically weakened the immune system and was often accompanied by a rare...