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New vaccines will take awhile.(Brief Article)
2002 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Americans will probably have to depend on current anthrax vaccines if there's another such biological attack this year, a leading researcher says. Second-generation vaccines are in the works but not ready.
There is only one approved anthrax vaccine that's ready to go, and that's the one that the Food and Drug Administration approved in the 1970s, Daniel Lucey, director of the Infectious Disease Service at the Washington Hospital Center, told researchers at a recent anthrax vaccine forum.
The government cleared the nation's sole maker of the anthrax vaccine to resume shipping after four years in which its factory repeatedly failed FDA inspections.
"This is the only vaccine that we will have if there is another anthrax attack," Lucey said.
Last fall's anthrax outbreak killed five people on the East Coast. The Washington Hospital Center tested more than 400 people after anthrax was discovered in the Washington area, but no positive cases were discovered.
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Source: HighBeam Research, New vaccines will take awhile.(Brief Article)