The U.S. military uses a smallpox vaccine called ACAM2000, produced by Sanofi Pasteur. The virus in ACAM2000 is produced not on the flanks of cows, as with previous generations of vaccine, but in lab cultures of African green monkey cells.
The average car insurance rate in Texas is $1,510 a year. Your age, your driving record, the model of car you have, the severity and frequency of claims in your neighborhood and other variables are used by insurance companies to figure out the cost of your policy.
Premiums for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will be 36 percent higher, on average, than they were last year. For policies by Moda Health, the largest insurer in Oregon, premiums will be 25.6 percent higher. And in Minnesota, the average monthly premiums for BlueCross BlueShield are rising between 45 and 49 percent, depending on the plan.