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That perception changed dramatically after Sept. 11 and the anthrax attacks. Suddenly, vaccines were back in the headlines. The U.S. government was scrambling to build up its supplies of smallpox inoculations, and an anthrax vaccine that had been stuck in a legal and scientific morass for years was thrust back...
Yet defense against bioterrorism is only part of the vaccine renaissance. Over the past few years, dramatic advances in the fields of immunology, virology and genetics have jump-started this long-stalled field of medicine. All the easy things that vaccines can do had been done, and researchers were ready...
An important trigger for this turnaround, surprisingly enough, was vaccine research's most notable failure. In the 1980s, as the AIDS epidemic began to spread, scientists tried to fight it as they had polio and chickenpox--by crippling the virus and using it to train a patient's immune system...
At home, the anthrax killer is still at large - and may well have gotten his germs out of a U.S. laboratory - and Capitol Hill staffers are about to start taking a vaccine that just two years ago was suffering from a major credibility gap.
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.