NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jul 08 –
Mass vaccination in the event of a smallpox attack would stop an epidemic faster and result in fewer deaths than would the strategy recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition for July 8.
The CDC plan, which was endorsed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on June 20 and subsequently adopted by the Administration, calls for prior vaccination only for healthcare workers, with quarantine of symptomatic smallpox cases in the event of an attack and targeted vaccination of case contacts. Only if this strategy were unable to contain the epidemic would the CDC guidelines call for a switch to mass vaccination.
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