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Vaccines are credited with having saved more lives than any medical treatment ever developed. Their continued success depends on the thoughtful consideration of the many ethical questions related to their development, regulation, and use

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Monitoring H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ethics and Policy
As development of a vaccine against H1N1 influenza (swine flu) proceeds toward a likely mass immunization program this fall, VaccineEthics.org is tracking developments in ethical and policy issues related to H1N1 flu vaccines and vaccination efforts. Follow the latest news at the H1N1 influenza page of blog.VaccineEthics.org.

Additional Content Now Available
A variety of new materials are now available on VaccineEthics.org. Several new Issue Briefs have been added, examining topics such as risk and benefit in vaccine policy, bioterrorism vaccines, the vaccine industry, and more. A new primary-source based curriculum unit is also available, examining the history of the Salk polio vaccine through documents from the Eisenhower presidential library. Finally, our bibliography has been updated with over 150 new references.

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	Latest news from blog.vaccineethics.org Updates: H1N1 vaccine supply and NY health care worker mandates There's more coverage of the H1N1 vaccination program than we or anyone else can digest. However, this story from yesterday's Washington Post, "Why such a shortage of swine flu vaccine?" does a very good job examining the most common topic of late, the recent shortfall in H1N1 vaccine supply compared to government and manufacturer predictions. (Whether this technically qualifies as a 'shortage' is up for... [More] CDC and Emory launch smallpox eradication history website The seemingly wall-to-wall coverage of the H1N1 vaccination program has included frequent comparisons to the 1976 swine flu outbreak and the much-maligned national vaccination effort that followed. During that same period, another massive vaccination program was underway, as the worldwide effort to eradicate smallpox through vaccination was nearing completion. By 1977, the last known case of naturally-o... [More]