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Military bill includes $162 million in bioterrorism funding

Emergency Management Alert, April 23, 2003

President Bush on April 16 signed into law a fiscal year 2003 military supplemental appropriations bill, which includes $162 million for bioterrorism and public health activities, according to BNA's Health Care Daily Report.

The majority of the funding will go toward the federal smallpox vaccination plan for health workers and first responders. The legislation includes $42 million for a program to compensate volunteers who receive the vaccine and suffer side effects. In addition, $100 million will help state and local public health departments with the costs of the vaccination program.

The American Nurses Association says $100 million is only enough to carry out the first 500,000 vaccinations, which falls shy of the Bush administration's plan to vaccinate between 2 million and 10 million people.

The supplemental bill also includes $16 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research severe acute respiratory syndrome, the flu-like illness that is spreading quickly around the world.

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