Most people don’t get vaccinated for smallpox anymore, since it has been eliminated “in the wild”. That’s why they offered her the vaccination when she went to work with the virus in a lab.
Most people don’t get vaccinated for smallpox anymore, since it has been eliminated “in the wild”.
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I read that “Routine vaccination of the American public against smallpox stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the United States.”
So some of us older folks may have already gotten it.