• Physician Reporting of Smallpox Vaccine Adverse Events and CDC's Clinician Information Line
  Health-care providers reporting or who need assistance with evaluating a smallpox vaccinee with a potential adverse event should contact Public Health at 206-296-4774. In addition, CDC's Clinician Information Line, telephone 877-554-4625 is staffed by nurses 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This information line is a source for general smallpox clinical adverse event information and for assistance with adverse event reporting. As needed for clinical consultation and release of VIG and cidofovir, callers to this line will be connected to CDC's Smallpox Vaccine Adverse Events Clinical Consultation Team, whose members are experts in infectious diseases, ophthalmology, and neurology, and have back-up from smallpox/vaccinia disease experts.
  
  
• UPDATE: Smallpox Vaccine (Vaccinia) Adverse Event Recognition and Management for King County Health Care Providers
  
  
• Smallpox Vaccine (Vaccinia) Adverse Event Recognition and Management for King County Health Care Providers
  
  
• General information about the National Smallpox Vaccination Plan
  
  
• Information for health care and Public Health workers considering voluntary pre-event smallpox vaccination for participation in Public Health or health care response teams (Adobe PDF)
  
  
• The CDC Resource Kit: Materials for Health Professionals
  
  
• Public Health Recommendations for Smallpox
  Vaccine Use
  
  
• February 2002 Epi-Log Newsletter: Smallpox as a biological threat (1st article)

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