Plan helps guide states should mass vaccinations be needed

Tuesday, September 24, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Federal officials sent states detailed guidelines Monday for rapidly vaccinating their entire populations against smallpox should the deadly disease return through an act of terrorism.

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