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January 06, 2003

Note to Readers: NNii has now posted "Detailed information about smallpox, Common questions about smallpox and smallpox vaccine for the general public, and Common questions on smallpox and smallpox vaccine for health care professionals" on its Web site, http://www.immunizationinfo.org.

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"Duke Among Hospitals Conducting Smallpox Vaccine Study" Associated Press (www.ap.org) (01/04/03)

Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., is one of several research centers selected by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to participate in a national study of whether diluted smallpox vaccine is still effective in people originally vaccinated more than two decades ago.  The study will involve a vaccine from Wyeth, which made some 15 million doses that are being stored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Other centers participating in the study include the University of Rochester, the University of California at Los Angeles, Northern California Kaiser-Permanente, the University of Maryland, St. Louis University, and Stanford University.

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