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- Hello Jeff,
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- Found the original military document calling for West
Nile vaccine.
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- It takes at least 10 years to get vaccine to market.
If you do the math, we are on the brink of marketing the vaccine, 2000
or 2001.
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- Patricia
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- File: 102496_sep96_decls9_0001.txt Page: 0001 Total Pages:
1
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- Subject: WEST NILE VIRUS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT 7 DEC 90
Unit: OTSG Parent Organization: HSC Box ID: BX003202
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- Folder Title: DESERT SHIELD MEDICAL ISSUES REVIEW AND
AD HOC WORKING GROUP Document Number: 6 Folder SEQ #:
31
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- UNCLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WALTER REED ARMY
INST@ OF RESEARCH WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, WASHINGTON, DC. 2=7.SIOD
Appendix E
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- IN REPLY REFER TO: SGRD-UWF-E 7 December 1990
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- MEMORANDUM FOR: Head, Tri-Service Vaccine Task Force
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- SUBJECT: West Nile Virus vaccine development
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- 1. West Nile fever is a threat to military operations
in the middle east.
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- 2. Outbreaks have occurred in Israel and Egypt and other
areas. occasionally, attack rates are as high as 50%. Clinical manifestations
include dengue fever-like symptoms: fevers, myalgias and rashes. Serosurveys
indicate ongoing exposure of indigenous populations Vector mosquitoes are
present in the area of operation Desert Shield. Few of our soldiers can
be expected to have antibody to this virus.
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- 3. On 19 November 1990, representatives of the USAMRDC
and the U.s. Navy Medical Research Institute began a joint effort to develop
a formalin inactivated vaccine for West Nile fever. Exploratory development
has begun. Development should be accelerated under the present circumstances.
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- 4. RECOMMENDATION:
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- a. A vaccine for West Nile fever should be developed
immediately.
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- POC: COL Charles H. Hoke, Jr.
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- AV 291-2054
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- Declassified per SECARMY by CMH: 10-10-1996
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