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The best reason to get the flu vaccine is that it protects against most flus--not that you're worried about contracting anthrax. While inhalational anthrax has killed only four people so far, many more could be at risk from flu-related complications. There's no need to compound the...
Or so the mayor's reasoning went. Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems with his logic. For one thing, getting vaccinated against influenza doesn't guarantee you won't get sick. Although highly effective, the flu vaccine protects against only the dominant strains and even then does not provide...
In the worst case, asking all healthy adults to get vaccinated could actually backfire, leading to even more deaths if it means we run out of shots for those who are most vulnerable to the infection. Already there have been delays in getting this year's shipment of vaccine to...
THE THREAT Any of the CDC's A-list of deadly agents could be delivered through the air. But of these, smallpox may be the most worrisome. Killing 30% of those infected and leaving the rest scarred for life, it spreads easily from person to person, especially in a population...
WHAT CAN BE DONE The government has ordered stepped-up smallpox-vaccine production, so that 300 million fresh doses should be ready in 12 months. There is no vaccine for plague--though the recent decoding of its genome could accelerate that quest.