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Science panel urges clear warnings, patience with inoculation.(Brief Article)
2003 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Bush administration should tell health workers being offered the smallpox vaccine that it carries real risks and they are likely to receive only minimal compensation if they are injured, scientific experts say.
"The committee suggests explicitly stating that the benefit of the vaccination program is to increase the nation's public health preparedness, but that the benefit of vaccination to any one individual might be very low," the panel reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The panel, convened by the Institute of Medicine, also urged the White House to analyze the first round of inoculations before offering the vaccine to millions of other health care workers and emergency responders.
The risk of a bioterror attack involving smallpox is unknown, the Institute of Medicine noted, while the risks of the vaccine are well-documented. Based on historical information, as many as 40 people out of every million being vaccinated for the first time will face life-threatening reactions, and 1-2 will die.
President Bush's plan calls for quickly vaccinating nearly a half million people working in hospital emergency rooms and on special smallpox response teams. The panel emphasized that information about risks and benefits must be clearly communicated to them.
The experts also recommended that people be told that they may not receive any compensation if they are injured by the vaccine.
Congress acted to protect people and institutions delivering the vaccine from most lawsuits that could be filed by those injured by the inoculation, leaving such patients with little recourse. Under the policy, injured people may have access to state workers' compensation programs, but those programs are not likely to cover all medical ...
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