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Watching the police officers come and go, some of them in protective white suits and masks, and seeing the long hours they spent in the top-floor apartment above a local pharmacy, neighbors in North London's multiracial Wood Green section knew that something big was up. Last Tuesday morning...
Imagine this scenario: terrorists release an airborne, antibiotic-resistant strain of anthrax in a major European capital. Without vaccines or antitoxins to reduce fatalities, the public is largely unprotected. But the government quickly dispenses a new nasal spray that puts people's immune systems into overdrive, protecting them not only...
INOCULATED. PRESIDENT BUSH, 56, against smallpox; in Washington. The President has called for all frontline military personnel and health-care workers to be vaccinated as well, citing the possibility of biological warfare. Bush is not yet recommending the shot, which carries rare but serious side effects, for the general public...
The irony is that most Americans--2 out of 3, according to a Robert Wood Johnson survey--seem to be willing to put their health at risk to protect themselves against a disease that is entirely theoretical. There hasn't been an outbreak of smallpox for 25 years, thanks in...
Luckily, doctors can often tell in advance who is most at risk. Pregnant women and small children, for example, are particularly vulnerable. So is anyone whose immune system is compromised--by HIV, cancer, immune disorders or immunosuppressive drugs. People who have ever had eczema, or who live with someone who...