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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Stock Picking for Charity - 2006
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To: keokalani'nui who wrote (587)5/18/2007 8:42:15 AM
From: Doc Bones   of 592
 
FDA Panel: Vaccine Less Risky Than Smallpox
May 17, 2007, 4:24 pm

Posted by Jacob Goldstein

Sure, one out of every 150 people innoculated with the smallpox vaccine from Acambis developed an inflammation of the heart-wall muscle and surrounding area. But that beats getting smallpox, a panel of FDA advisors decided today.

In a unanimous vote, the panel said the vaccine is “safe and effective to be used in situations where there’s high risk of exposure to smallpox virus,” writes Dow Jones’s Jennifer Corbett Dooren. The U.S. government has been stockpiling the vaccine, known as ACAM2000, since 2001. The vaccine was derived from Wyeth’s Dryvax, which the company has stopped making.

A global public health campaign wiped smallpox from the world in the 1970s, but specimens (pictured, above left) are still cultivated in high-security laboratories, and the government stockpiles the vaccine as a defense against bioterrorists who might try to reintroduce smallpox into the world. Smallpox vaccines are not available to the public.

Bonus pox: Today’s hearing reminded the Health Blog of Edward Jenner, who invented the very notion of vaccines. Click [here]

bbc.co.uk

to read how Jenner tested the world’s first smallpox vaccine on an 8-year-old boy.

blogs.wsj.com
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