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Experts Urge Hold on Smallpox Shots.
By Catherine E. Shoichet, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 20--The next phase of the smallpox vaccination program should be put on hold while health authorities investigate possible severe side effects, a CDC advisory panel recommended Thursday.
The original plan, proposed by President Bush in December, called for health care workers to be vaccinated first, followed by up to 10 million first-responders --- police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers --- and then the general public.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which meets several times a year to recommend changes in vaccination policy to the Atlanta-based CDC, voted unanimously to continue only current efforts to…
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