1.   Hepatitis B immune globulin provides temporary protection following an exposure.

2.   A single dose of hepatitis B immune globulin is also recommended, if this can be given within seven days of exposure.

3.   Eleven percent of those who received Gammagard contracted hepatitis C, compared with none of those who were given other immune globulin products, the researchers found.

4.   Federal rules say the medicine, a colorless liquid known as vaccinia immune globulin, must be on hand before smallpox vaccinations may be administered.

5.   Executives from individual manufacturers said they were taking steps to try and increase production of immune globulin.

6.   Hepatitis A vaccine is eventually expected to replace immune globulin as a means to prevent infection.

7.   Immune globulin is a fraction of the blood that contains antibodies, the proteins that defend against invading microbes.

8.   Immune globulin is made by pooling blood from hundreds of donors.

9.   In October, Centeon voluntarily suspended production to fix the problems found by the FDA, halting its production of immune globulin.

10.   In Marathon, Fla., Boyd Burlingson has become dependent on immune globulin to help fight the onset of paralysis that is a symptom of Guillain-Barre syndrome.