1.   A panel of specialists advising the federal government on smallpox vaccinations unanimously rejected a proposal Thursday to offer vaccine to every American.

2.   Adults who are new to camels, and lack immunity to any orthopoxes now that smallpox vaccination has stopped, might provide the virus with novel opportunities.

3.   Bush also said he did not support mandatory universal smallpox vaccination and expressed concern that such a program might cause illnesses and side effects in some healthy people.

4.   But disease centers officials are not planning mass smallpox vaccinations at this time.

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

6.   Hundreds of volunteers started receiving smallpox vaccinations this week to test whether the US could stretch its stock of vaccine, which is inadequate to protect the entire population.

7.   In recent weeks, the panel has heard health workers and members of the general public express their views about changing recommendations for smallpox vaccination.

8.   Mohammad N. Akhter, executive director of the American Public Health Association, has been publicly urging the administration to reopen the question of smallpox vaccination.

9.   The blood supply could shrink if smallpox vaccinations became widely used because donors are rejected for one year after a vaccination.

10.   The CDC and the committee plan to hold forums around the country over the next few weeks to discuss the risks and benefits of reintroducing smallpox vaccination.