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Offering a vaccine
Thanks to an historic offer from federal health officials, as many as 3,000 Capitol Hill and post office workers are eligible to receive the anthrax vaccine. This is the first time the government has provided civilians with vaccination against bioterror weapons. (The program is part of an experimental study...
HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson announced the program Tuesday, adding that those not interested in the vaccine (which has been linked to rare but serious side effects) can also opt to take 40 extra days of antibiotics.
Reading about the threat of smallpox [TERRORISM, Oct. 29], I was reminded of the risk of polio in the 1950s and '60s. Surely one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of the U.S. government was providing, free of charge, the little sugar cube that contained the Sabin oral immunization for polio...
DUST PROBE: The FBI gave the detainee Zacarias Moussaoui a test for the anthrax vaccine. Result: negative. A would-be pilot, he was arrested last August with literature on crop dusters in his possession. He is being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 case. TOWERING TARGETS: In...