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April 28, 2003

U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"Smallpox Clinics Start Small; About 40 Are Inoculated in Private Event"

Syracuse Post-Standard (www.post-standard.com) (04/24/03) P. B2; Weiner, Mark

Health officials in New York offered the first round of smallpox vaccinations to local and state health departments and emergency personnel this week.  Volunteers from state health agencies and local hospital workers were among the first people in the state to be immunized against the smallpox virus.  The vaccinations come just days before a mass smallpox vaccination clinic in central New York opens again for the first time in decades.  Coordinated by the Onondaga County Health Department, the clinic is one of several civilian vaccination programs that have launched nationally since Jan. 24.  Since then, more than 32,600 people have been vaccinated against the smallpox virus, including 446 in New York.

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