March 20, 2006
CNN.com

Bird flu vaccine eggs all in one basket
By Caleb Hellerman

In a handful of warehouses, at secret locations in the United States, sit containers of vaccine that health officials fervently hope could head off an outbreak of the killer flu. Citing national security, the Department of Health and Human Services won't say where the vaccine is being stored, but last week the National Institutes of Health said that by February, 7.8 million doses of vaccine that could be used against the H5N1 strain of bird flu would be available. Since two shots, a month apart, are give to each person, this would provide coverage for 3.9 million Americans. Those doses are the first of the President Bush's announced plan to stockpile enough vaccine to innoculate at least 20 million.