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CDC panel recommends vaccinating medical workers, not conducting nationwide inoculation push.
Byline: Dahleen Glanton
ATLANTA _ Concluding that the medical risks of the smallpox vaccine outweigh the threat of a potential outbreak, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday decided not to recommend reinstating a national immunization program that would have made the vaccine available to the public.
As the federal government moves to safeguard the country against a potential biological attack using the smallpox virus, the panel recommended vaccinating up to 20,000 medical workers, such as ambulance drivers, emergency room workers, epidemiologists, law enforcement personnel and others designated as first responders should there be an outbreak.
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