Researchers trying to stretch stockpile of smallpox vaccine

Saturday, October 13, 2001

BETHESDA, Md. -- Researchers are beginning a large new study to see if they can dilute the nation's small stockpile of smallpox vaccine to make it stretch further in case of a bioterrorist attack.

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