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Science 5 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5565, pp. 25 - 27
DOI: 10.1126/science.296.5565.25
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SMALLPOX VACCINES:
New Cache Eases Shortage Worries

Martin Enserink

A new study has found that the 15.4 million doses of aging smallpox vaccine currently in the U.S. stockpile--an amount considered woefully inadequate--can be safely diluted by a factor of 5 or 10 without losing their potency. And, in another unexpected windfall, Aventis Pasteur has just announced that it plans to donate to the government about 85 million additional doses of a similar vaccine that have been stored in its freezers for about 40 years.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Effect of 5-Iodo-2'-Deoxyuridine on Vaccinia Virus (Orthopoxvirus) Infections in Mice.
J. Neyts, E. Verbeken, and E. De Clercq (2002)
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 46, 2842-2847
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