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Public Health Executive Explores Making Vaccines Available To Public.(Brief Article)
2001 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The executive director of the American Public Health Association, Mohammad N. Akhter, MD, MPH, has told a Senate committee that a national group of experts should be formed immediately to study the risks and benefits of making smallpox and anthrax vaccines available to the population at large in the event of a bioterrorist attack.
Akhter made his remarks while testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
"I was born and raised on the Indian subcontinent. I have lived through the outbreaks of smallpox, malaria, typhoid, hepatitis A and many other diseases," testified Akhter, former Public Health Commissioner in Washington, DC. "When the risk is high, we must re-evaluate our position about making vaccines available to the public."
Akhter said experts from the medical, scientific and intelligence communities should serve on the national committee to assess the risks and to "...protect our people from the most common agents that could be used against us by a terrorist."
He also outlined the steps needed to strengthen the public health infrastructure to prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to a bioterrorist event:
Preventing a Bioterrorist Event is Preferable to Responding to One
* Links must be established between the intelligence community and public health officials on a routine basis to discern the actual attack, eliminate the response lag-time of the agent's incubation period, and thereby prevent casualties.
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