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Smallpox:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>U.S. Military Immunizes More Than 400,000; Civilians 34,000From Wednesday, May 7, 2003 issue.
The U.S. Defense Department has immunized more than 400,000 military personnel, the Pentagon announced today (see GSN, May 6).
Assistant Secretary of Defense William Winkenwerder said the program has had lower rates of complications than occurred historically with smallpox vaccinations.
“We believe the program has been a real success and our experience would support that conclusion,” Winkenwerder said (U.S. Defense Department release, May 7).
Meanwhile, the civilian smallpox immunization program has immunized fewer than 35,000 volunteers as of April 25 (see chart below; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release, May 2).
| State / City | Number of Immunizations | | Alabama | 451 | | Alaska | 94 | | Arizona | 39 | | Arkansas | 976 | | California | 1,425 | | Chicago | 50 | | Colorado | 224 | | Connecticut | 598 | | Delaware | 107 | | Florida | 3,555 | | Georgia | 134 | | Hawaii | 173 | | Idaho | 197 | | Illinois | 148 | | Indiana | 765 | | Iowa | 475 | | Kansas | 447 | | Kentucky | 741 | | Los Angeles County | 212 | | Louisiana | 1,106 | | Maine | 39 | | Maryland | 693 | | Massachusetts | 77 | | Michigan | 625 | | Minnesota | 1,471 | | Mississippi | 404 | | Missouri | 1,253 | | Montana | 89 | | Nebraska | 1,388 | | Nevada | 0 | | New Hampshire | 275 | | New Jersey | 657 | | New Mexico | 130 | | New York City | 232 | | New York | 528 | | North Carolina | 1,209 | | North Dakota | 402 | | Ohio | 1,721 | | Oklahoma | 298 | | Oregon | 79 | | Pennsylvania | 93 | | Puerto Rico | 7 | | Rhode Island | 22 | | South Carolina | 811 | | South Dakota | 730 | | Tennessee | 2,429 | | Texas | 3,450 | | Utah | 256 | | Vermont | 83 | | Virginia | 760 | | Washington | 446 | | Washington D.C. | 75 | | West Virginia | 734 | | Wisconsin | 754 | | Wyoming | 404 | | TOTAL | 34,541 |
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