[EvaClement]

A word of caution for those vaccinated against smallpox and for the people around them.

[Steve Eisenberg]

A word of caution for those vaccinated against smallpox and for the people around them.

Yes, although vaccinia is rarely a serious disease, and there is no indication here that the baby got it bad. As for the statement the soldier got a "major reaction," this story says no:

Contact vaccinia in soldier's baby linked to breast-feeding

I would go by the above over the Reuters OP.

[BlackVeil]

I wonder if there is really any smallpox virus in Iraq. They don't seem to have the capacity for such advanced breeding of toxins. It must be somewhere else.

There is a lot we are not being told about the bio-weapons threat. I think that there are forces menacing the USA, but it is being kept secret. The anthrax attacks have never been explained.

[msdrby]

No offense to anyone in the Army, but this is yet another reason to NOT trust Army hospitals.