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Science 20 December 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5602, pp. 2312 - 2316
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5602.2312
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Rough-and-Tumble Behind Bush's Smallpox Policy

Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink

After months of ideological tugs-of-war over whether to vaccinate the public against smallpox to protect against a bioterrorist attack, the Administration has settled on a compromise that most scientists can live with. On 13 December, President George W. Bush announced the policy: immediate, mandatory vaccination of 500,000 military personnel, and a voluntary campaign among a similar number of health care workers or "first responders." After that, the government would offer the vaccine to up to 10 million additional health care workers, police, firefighters, and other essential personnel--but not the general public.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Group interest versus self-interest in smallpox vaccination policy.
C. T. Bauch, A. P. Galvani, and D. J. D. Earn (2003)
PNAS 100, 10564-10567
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