Smallpox vaccine plans face logistics and risk concerns
CDC outlines an outbreak response requiring extensive staff including vaccinators, crowd control, and clerical support. Officials stress meticulous records on doses and lots amid debates on how many medical workers to vaccinate before an outbreak and potential two week downtime for hospital staff. New vaccines with fewer adverse reactions are in development.
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Smallpox vaccine stockpile and protection duration explained
The CDC notes 15.4 million doses exist for 76 million people with 210 million more to be produced by year end. Initial protection lasts three to five years, sometimes a decade or more, and vaccine is effective within days of exposure. Risks include encephalitis in 1 of 10,000 and rare deaths. Symptoms start as flu like then a spreading rash and fever. Vaccination stopped after WHO declared global eradication in 1980. no current transmission.
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FBI seizes items tied to Hmimssa in alleged credit card fraud
FBI agents seized a laptop, two printers, cutters, lamination devices and notes from a storage locker linked to Hmimssa, who faces federal charges over a Detroit Chicago credit card counterfeiting ring. He previously lived in Cedar Rapids and used the alias Michael Saisa. authorities say he awaits trial in Detroit.
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Tape controversy shadows Iowa Senate race debate
The Ganske Harkin contest is jolted by a Watergate style tape episode. Bill Armistead blasts the bugging as a cloud over Iowa politics as the candidates prepare for a Sunday debate sponsored by Gazette Communications.
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Bush urges Congress to act on Iraq war plan
President Bush pressed Congress to authorize action against Iraq citing a 45 minute window in the dossier and warning of possible weapons of mass destruction. Blair’s JIC attribution drew praise from Blair but skepticism from Democrats who fear unilateral action without UN disarmament and scrutiny of regional security provisions.
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