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Protecting Our Forces: Improving Vaccine Acquisition and Availability in the U.S. Military (2002)
Medical Follow-Up Agency (MFUA), Institute of Medicine (IOM)

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DHHS initially contracted OraVax (now a part of Acambis, Inc.) to produce 50 million doses of a cell culture smallpox vaccine (Acambis, Inc., 2000). After the events of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax mailings in October 2001, the Department of Health and Human Services expanded its

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contract. The $428 million contract with Acambis, Inc. (and its subcontractor, Baxter International), is to produce 155 million additional doses of the smallpox vaccine (DHHS, 2001). DynPort Vaccine Corporation, DoD's prime vendor contractor through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program, has

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Corporation, DoD's prime vendor contractor through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program, has linked with BioReliance to produce 300,000 doses of a smallpox vaccine (Brownlee, 2001; Johnson- Winegar, 2001).

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be at risk for smallpox, and in such cases arrangements must be made to transfer the smallpox vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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1DynPort Vaccine Corporation, DoD's prime vendor contractor through the Joint Vaccine Acqui- sition Program, has linked with BioReliance to produce a smallpox vaccine. The vaccine is being evaluated at the University of Kentucky, and Phase I clinical trials began in April 2002 (Gay, 2002;

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Rubella virus vaccine, live, attenuated Smallpox vaccines Tetanus and diphtheria toxoid, adsorbed

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Plague vaccine Smallpox vaccine Previously manufactured by Wyeth Vaccines

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Botulinum pentavalent toxoid 1979 1995 Smallpox vaccine (DryvaxO) 2001 1982 NOTE: The army also has a separate IND application (Army BB-IND #3723) on file for botulinum