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Risks Mount In The United States.(Brief Article)

Vaccine Weekly

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2001 JUL 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --

Concerns about vaccine safety, antibiotic use and resistance, and the importation of infectious diseases have recently intensified in the U.S., health officials said.

The officials spoke June 26, 2001, at a press conference sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). They outlined the challenges the United States currently faces, citing the potential fallout from reports of adverse reactions to vaccines, the growing number of bacteria that have developed resistance to a variety of drugs, the possibility of an outbreak caused by an exotic virus such as Ebola, and an increase in the number ...

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