This posting is to announce that the Institute of Medicine's Immunization
Safety Review Committee will publicly release its report, "Hepatitis B Vaccine
and Demyelinating Neurological Disorders" on Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 4:00 PM
EDT. Upon release, the report and the news release will be available on the Web
at
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-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
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"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
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