"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Pediatric Bioterror: The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a statement on smallpox vaccine. Not surprisingly, they support the CDC’s ring vaccination approach, ignoring the effects of a smallpox outbreak on a non-immune population. (Many of the people who are part of the CDC’s vaccine vaccine advisory panel are also members of the Academy of Pediatrics, and three of them worked on the AAP’s recommendations.) No one under thirty, except for smallpox lab workers, has been immunized or exposed to natural smallpox. Ring vaccination is likely to be much more difficult and less effective in these circumstances, as I’ve argued before. Yet, the AAP isn’t entirely ignoring terrorism. They’ve included it in their disaster readiness kit for families, and they have a page now devoted to bioterrorism. posted by Sydney on
9/01/2002 12:43:00 PM
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