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December 20, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Germany to Buy More Smallpox Vaccine"
BBC Worldwide Monitoring (www.bbc.co.uk) (12/19/02)
The German government will add another 65 million units of smallpox vaccine to the 35 million units it already has. State Minister Hans Martin Bury noted that the decision to buy additional doses of the vaccine was not in response to a specific threat, but that the government was just taking precautions to protect its citizens.
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