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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Give with VIG. While health authorities are unlikely soon to adopt Kempe's proposal for a near-total halt to mass vaccination, potent agents for reducing its ravages are already available. One is a safer vaccine that Kempe has devised. Before that, or something like it, comes into general use, doctors can still use a VIG gamma globulin extract, vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), which contains antibodies from recently vaccinated blood donors, to protect the very young and those in poor health who have to be vaccinated. The value of VIG is well established; it has been stocked for years...