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Neurologists play key role in evaluating threat of smallpox attack.
2003 JUN 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neurologists need to play a key role in evaluating the threat posed by a terrorist attack using smallpox.
According to a study from the United States, "Smallpox virus, used as a weapon against an unimmunized population, has the potential to infect tens of thousands of individuals, kill 30% or more of those infected, and trigger the vaccination of many times that number. The neurologist will be faced with recognizing and treating the neurologic complications of both the disease and the vaccine."
"As the most serious untoward reaction to the vaccine is fatal encephalitis, the neurologist will be central to the debate over whether the government should consider a national campaign to reimmunize the population or wait until there is a terrorist attack involving this agent as a single entity or in combination with another virus, bacteria, and/or chemical or nuclear agents," said D. J. Cleri and colleagues at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, ...
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Smallpox Vaccine Study to Examine Ability...
- News wire article from: AScribe Health News Service July 9, 2003 700+ words
...Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn...Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a new...VUMC's latest smallpox vaccine study will examine...site. Two previous smallpox vaccine studies at VUMC were...
- Thirty-Nine Maine Health Workers Receive Smallpox Vaccine So Far.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 13, 2003 700+ words
...workers received the smallpox vaccine last week, and some...willing volunteers for the smallpox vaccine, but so far only Maine Medical Center in Portland is fully...planning at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, said the...
- Fatal heart attacks rock smallpox vaccine efforts: link could damage national...
- Newspaper article from: Occupational Health Management June 1, 2003 700+ words
...Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury...receipt of smallpox vaccine. Health care...not receive smallpox vaccine if they have...University Medical Center. Beyond that...unrelated to the smallpox vaccine--a certain...
- University of Kentucky to conduct trials on smallpox vaccine for troops.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Spears, Valarie Honeycutt April 26, 2002 700+ words
...The University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center is the exclusive site chosen to conduct...clinical research trial for a new smallpox vaccine for the U.S. Department of Defense...testing and must never have received the smallpox vaccine. Volunteers will undergo a rigorous...
- FDA Clears VaxGen's IND for an Attenuated Smallpox Vaccine Candidate.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 7, 2004 700+ words
...of an attenuated smallpox vaccine(1) and licensing...stockpile of attenuated smallpox vaccine over a 10-year...Dryvax(R), the smallpox vaccine currently licensed...Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "LC16m8 was extensively...
- VaxGen Begins Clinical Development of its Attenuated Smallpox Vaccine Candidate.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 20, 2004 700+ words
...of its attenuated smallpox vaccine candidate, LC16m8...Vanderbilt University Medical Center are expected to...appropriate attenuated smallpox vaccine for use in the general...stockpile of attenuated smallpox vaccine and to license the...
- INCELL Receives Development Funding for Next Generation Smallpox Vaccine.
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 5, 2004 700+ words
...further develop its oral smallpox vaccine product and oral vaccine...began developing its oral smallpox vaccine in January 2002 amid concerns...people as a preventive smallpox vaccine in Europe before vaccination...from USAF Wilford Hall Medical Center, USAF Brooks ...
- VaxGen Phase I/II study of attenuated smallpox vaccine candidate completes...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 11, 2005 700+ words
...national stockpile of smallpox vaccine. Data from this trial...University of Kentucky Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The blinded comparative...LC16m8 or Dryvax, the smallpox vaccine currently licensed in...
- CSC Joint Venture DynPort Completes Phase I Smallpox Vaccine Clinical Trial.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 17, 2003 700+ words
...lymph-produced smallpox vaccine (Dryvax(R...effective and safe smallpox vaccine that meets modern...vaccines." DVC's new smallpox vaccine, derived from the...Kentucky's Chandler Medical Center. The trial focused...
- New Paper From Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Groups at Risk For...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 6, 2002 700+ words
...the live virus smallpox vaccine (called vaccinia...Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington...life-threatening smallpox vaccine complications...years ago when the smallpox vaccine was regularly administered...
Source: HighBeam Research, Neurologists play key role in evaluating threat of smallpox attack.