There was an outbreak in Wales, UK in 1962 where there had been long term antivaccine activism since the early 19th century. There were a number of deaths from complications from the emergency vaccination drive. There were a number of Smallpox deaths among hospital workers who should have been vaccinated or revaccinated as part of employment well before the outbreak. Adults are much more likely to have problems with a first Smallpox vaccination than are children. Nowadays the conventional old vaccine would only be used by the general population during a Smallpox emergency. The newer Bavarian-Nordic MVA vaccine is much safer and is the one being used against Monkeypox.
Yes back in the day that vaccine was nasty, I STILL have the scar on my arm from that vaccine it is faint but STILL there!! We were not vaccinated for the normal childhood diseases measles, mumps, chicken pox, we just got the disease and went on with life!! When this whole Covid thing started I was infuriated that ALL OF A SUDDEN they decided to mask us up, close our businesses, lock us down, NEVER before in the US did they EVEN TRY to do this to the population, after 70 years of going through EVERY damn virus in the country it was very disheartening to watch our population roll over and do as they were told!! So little PUSH BACK very sad to watch, very sad to SEE how little our constitutional rights mean to our citizens!! VERY HAPPY I have lived my life during a time of freedom this country is headed straight toward the China way of living!! It won’t be long now!! Natural immunity is ALWAYS best that is WHY GOD gave us an amazing immune system, ALWAYS protect those with weakened immune systems and let herd immunity take its course!!