- Hello, Jeff - Refer also to the MD Anderson protocol,
i.e. special protocol for newly=vaccinated workers who must work within
6 feet of cancer patients.
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- Some hospitals have recognized the danger of contact
vaccinia for patients with surpressed immune systems. Jeff, you know yourself,
that people in hospital have weakened immune systems, no matter what the
illness. Just being in hospital is stressful and causes stress on the immune
system.
- Let us hope that word gets and out other hospitals follow
suit.
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- Patricia
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- 2 Hospitals Refuse Call To Vaccinate Workers
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- By Ceci Connolly
- Washington Post Staff Writer
- 12-18-2
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- Two prominent teaching hospitals are refusing to vaccinate
their employees against smallpox, rejecting President Bush's call for mass
inoculation of front-line medical workers who would be the first to confront
a biological attack.
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- Officials at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond said yesterday that the risk of dangerous
side effects of the vaccine and inadvertent transmission to patients outweigh
the remote threat of an attack with a virus that has not been seen since
the 1970s. Three other large medical centers, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
Emory Medical Center in Atlanta and the University of Iowa Hospitals and
Clinics are leaning against inoculating their staffs.
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- For the full story
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4253-2002Dec17?language=printer
- © 2002 The Washington Post Company
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
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- Go with God and in Good Health
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