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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (78626)	10/18/2004 11:26:06 AM
From: aladin	Respond to of 793838

Alistair, The US system is not monolithic, but the CDC does set policy. Most vaccines are controlled by State and County Governments who follow CDC policy in distributing them. If you hunt around on Google - you will find only the direct non-VA purchases by the CDC. If you expand your search to look at communities you will find articles about State and County purchases. For example: wsoctv.com In the discussion of possible price gouging is this line: The state Department of Health and Human Services ordered about 300,000 doses from Aventis, and has received about 147,000 doses. County health departments made separate purchases. In my County - they have the following notice: wakegov.com John