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2: CURRENT PROPHYLACTIC AGENTS
Pages 14-18

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... , with modifications dictated by the peculiarities of the military environment. The military depends heavily on a group of civilian medical consultants, the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, which has been advising the medical leadership of the U.S.
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... Reserve component personnel usually receive oral poliovirus vaccine, diphtheria-tetanus toxoid, and influenza virus vaccines. AGENTS USED DURING DEPLOYMENTS The list of agents added to the routine preventive series described above is dependent on the deployment scenario: the climate, the state of socioeconomic development of the nationts)
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... See section below on IND vaccines for comments on oral cholera vaccine. Desert Climate, Developing Country years, hepatitis A virus vaccine or immune globulin, · typhoid vaccine (injectable or oral)
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... , . smallpox vaccine, · plague vaccine, · tularemia vaccine (IND)
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