Word: vaccinees
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But the Senate had managed to find somewhere to stay in session and keep working, and it would have helped if the House had done the same, instead of sending members home. In a week when events were conspiring to make people wonder what we were getting into and whether...
--WHAT ABOUT A VACCINE? Only one anthrax vaccine exists, made by one company, BioPort, for only one client: the U.S. military. But BioPort stopped producing the vaccine in 1998, when the FDA cited the company for lapses in quality control at its Lansing, Mich., plant. BioPort reapplied for approval last...
As anxious as the country is over anthrax, the isolated outbreaks are only a lukewarm version of what a true infectious-disease hot zone would look like. Because anthrax is rarely contagious, the exposures to the bacteria have been well contained. But with other agents, that may not be so...
This suggested, says Walker, that doctors must find better ways to drain lymph from around the organs, in order to relieve the pressure. And they need to develop an antitoxin, since even when antibiotics kill off the bacteria, the poison that the bug has emitted can still kill the patient...
No. BioPort, the only manufacturer licensed by the FDA to make an anthrax vaccine, has stopped shipments because its facility did not meet FDA standards. BioPort began renovating its plant in 1999 and expects to begin filling orders again by the end of the year. The company's vaccine is...