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July 10, 2002
U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Volunteers Undergo Vaccine Trials"
Associated Press (www.ap.org) (07/10/02); Elias, Paul
Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn., is overseeing a
smallpox vaccine trial using nearly 330 volunteers from across
the nation, directing studies at its own site, the University of
Iowa, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and the Oakland
Medical Center in San Francisco. The trials are part of a $12.6
million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to
Vanderbilt, post-Sept. 11th, which brought to the forefront a
real possibility of bioterrorism. Two vaccines are being tested
in the trials: one known as Dryvax, which was made 20 years ago
and currently stocked at 15 million doses, and another made by
Aventis Pasteur, which kept about 70 million doses in a freezer
after the disease was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980.
Results of the trial, which will determine if the vaccines are
still useable, are expected in about a month.
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