SmallpoxVaccinationPolicy

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In March 2002, President Bush ordered 150M Smallpox Vaccines for the US Military. In the wake of 9.11, with bioterrorism on people's minds, the Cdc is considering reversing this recommendation, and has announced that it will have 286 million vaccination doses ready by 2003 -- one for every U.S. citizen. One of the biggest supporters for a new smallpox policy is Hauer,Jerome

In December 2002, President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld announced, that they would get vaccinated. "President Bush said that any civilian who wanted it could have it. I think that was a mistake, frankly," Dr. Vincent A. Fulginiti said. "This is not a safe vaccine for the general public because of all the complications," Fulginiti said during an interview before his lecture. "This is not the measles vaccine." http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0%2C1299%2CDRMN_15_1653697%2C00.html

In 1961, Fulginiti joined renowned pediatrician Dr. Henry Kempe at Colorado General Hospital in Denver, now known as University of Colorado Hospital. Kempe, who died in 1984, pioneered treatments for the vaccine's sometimes-fatal side effects. In the 1950s, he developed what is still the main defense against vaccine-induced disease: vaccinia immune globulin, which is made from the blood of recently vaccinated people. As stated, President Bush took the smallpox vaccine on December 21st, 2002. In February 2003, Bush's plan to vaccinate 500,000 health care workers against smallpox is getting off to an unexpectedly slow start as hundreds of hospitals and thousands of nurses across the country say that they will not participate. The CDC said that only 687 volunteers in 16 states had been vaccinated since the program began two weeks ago, though it has shipped 250,000 doses of vaccine to 41 states. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/health/07SMAL.html