House defeats legislative bill providing smallpox compensation
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
WASHINGTON -- Legislation compensating people injured or killed by the smallpox vaccine was defeated in the House Monday amid debate over the size of the payments, and the troubled vaccination program was temporarily suspended in at least eight states.
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