Word: vaccinees
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There is a vaccine for anthrax, but it?s only available in very limited quantities to the military. Will a vaccine be more widely available soon?
The existing vaccine is not really effective for civilians in any case. It requires six doses over sixteen months in order for it to work, and that kind of schedule isn?t really workable for the general public - unless you had an extreme risk of exposure, and you knew about...
How dire is the situation? The book is of two--or perhaps three--minds about it. Large sections are meticulously reported, offering eyewitness descriptions of four-story Soviet anthrax-fermenting tanks and behind-the-scenes accounts of the Pentagon's scramble to make enough vaccine to protect half a million...
“Until now, there’s been no reason why anyone in their right mind would develop a vaccine for plague,” she says. “But that’s all changed.”
One biotechnology company, Cambridge-based Acambis, is under contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to produce smallpox vaccine. The government has ordered a 40 million dose stockpile. But without the government contract, there would be no reason for a company to produce the vaccine.