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Smallpox and Vaccinia Laboratory Testing: A National Training Initiative
Course No: EM0005
This program originally aired January 29, 2003 as a satellite broadcast/webcast from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As part of the requirements to implement a national vaccination program, the Nation’s laboratorians must be prepared to provide information about available laboratory testing of febrile rash illnesses, and evaluation of vaccinia (smallpox) vaccine related adverse events to clinicians and others who use laboratory services. This program will explain the relationship and resources available in clinical and public health laboratories, indications for laboratory testing, the types and availability of testing, test interpretation, and specific specimen collection, handling, and transportation requirements.
A certificate of attendance will be awarded to participants who register for this program and complete the online evaluation.
WebCast Program Information MATERIALS: This program is available free of charge from the Public Health Foundation at http://www.phf.org or by calling toll free at
1-877-252-1200.
To view the webcast on demand (archived webcast) click on webcast above.
TARGET AUDIENCE: All laboratorians and those who use laboratory services. Laboratorians in state and local public health, clinical, reference, and physician office laboratories. Pathologists, physicians, phlebotomists, and specimen handlers and transporters. State Chief Medical Officers and Epidemiologists.
This page last reviewed: February 23, 2004
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