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Smallpox: U.S. Immunizes More Than 32,000 Volunteers U.S. health officials had vaccinated 32,644 civilian volunteers as of April 13, an increase of only 1,400 over the previous week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week (see GSN, April 10). Health officials released immunization numbers for individual states yesterday. The CDC has recorded 10 cases of myopericarditis — swelling in or around the heart — since the program began, according to the CDC. Three new cases were registered in the week preceding April 13. The U.S. military has reported about 20 cases of heart inflammation in the course of its immunization program, in which more than 350,000 personnel have received the vaccine. Between April 5 and April 13, health officials recorded at least nine serious adverse reactions to the vaccine and seven cases of the vaccine spreading beyond the immunization site. Officials also reported 77 mild adverse effects in that week, according to the CDC (CDC release, April 17)
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