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Article: Doctors poorly informed about side effects of vaccine, survey finds.(Brief Article)
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- Vaccine Weekly
- Article date:
- June 26, 2002
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2002 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Doctors are poorly informed about the dangerous side effects of the smallpox vaccine and the U.S. government's plan to control an outbreak if terrorists release the deadly germ, according to a survey.
The survey, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that young doctors in particular - those too young to remember the last human case of smallpox - have relatively little knowledge of the disease.
The CDC hired a company in April 2002 to conduct 1-hour interviews with 17 physicians in Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco. The findings were released May 9, 2002.
The ...