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CDC Seeks Access To Vaccine Currently Reserved For Military Personnel.(Brief Article)
2001 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Federal health officials are lining up access to the military's anthrax vaccine in case it's needed for a civilian who is allergic to antibiotics and thus needs some other protection after exposure to anthrax.
The vaccine would not be given routinely to civilians. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it could be useful, however, if someone exposed to any of the anthrax-tainted letters circulating the East Coast could not use any of the antibiotics that fend off anthrax.
So the CDC has applied to the Food and Drug Administration seeking permission to use the vaccine experimentally in that special kind of situation.
It's a formality, said CDC Deputy Director David Fleming. CDC filed the paperwork so there would be no bureaucratic delay in getting the FDA to agree to the use "if we encountered a very unusual incident" where it was needed, Fleming said.
"The evidence is that the vaccine alone is not as effective as antibiotics," Fleming said. "But it would be better than no antibiotics, and in the setting we're talking about, where someone has an allergic reaction, it would be the alternative that would be used."
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