[LSUfan]

I have not seen this anywhere else. Anyone else know anything about these reports?

[Blzbba]

Paranoia will destroy ya, Neal.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

I have looked for a media report on this and have found nothing.

Are the vaccinations derived from smallpox or vaccinia? That detail would have quite a lot of import to this story...

[jocon307]

Well, I don't know (and in truth I didn't even read the whole thing) but if they are only vaccinating children who are LEAVING the country it doesn't sound like they are protecting them from germs INSIDE the country. Maybe they are all so paranoid they think the evil Americans or Israelis may give their travelling tots small pox. Or maybe they are so ill informed they think small pox is still a danger in some places. Or maybe they are doing germ warfare but don't want it known by having one of their tots infect some other tot elsewhere. Does that last bit make sense? Other freepers will advise.

[kimosabe31]

US vulnerability to smallpox is enormous. There have been no sp vaccinnations since late 60's early 70's except maybe children of certain elitists. It would be the height of simple-mindedness to believe the islamofascists would not attempt to exploit this vulnerability. While this iranian report may not be accurate, you can bet your a$$ that this creul, sadistic medieval cult known as islam is working feverishly to weaponize this monstrous agent. Whatever happened to the administrations initiative to immunize the nation??

[WakeUpAndVote]

Of course Iran is vaccinated.

Iraq had the virus.

[Paleo Conservative]

One of the last big outbreaks of smallpox occurred in Iran and Iraq in 1972. Some cases were the dreaded "black pox" or hemoraggic smallpox which is almost 100% fatal. If anyone in Iran or Iraq collected and maintained samples of that smallpox, it would make an excellent biological weapon.

Extreme Smallpox

Some of the victims develop an extreme form of smallpox, often called "black pox". As portrayed by Preston:

"Doctors separate black pox into two forms -- flat smallpox and hemorrhagic smallpox. In a case of flat smallpox, the skin remains smooth and doesn't pustulate, but it darkens until it looks charred, and it can slip off the body in sheets. In hemorrhagic smallpox, black, unclotted blood oozes or runs from the mouth and other body orifices. Black pox is close to a hundred percent fatal. If any sign of it appears in the body, the victim will almost certainly die. In the bloody cases, the virus destroys the linings of the throat. The stomach, the intestines, the rectum, and the vagina, and these membranes disintegrate. Fatal smallpox can destroy the body's entire skin -- both the exterior skin and the interior skin that lines the passages of the body."

[woofie]

Here is a new book which has some bearing on the subject:



Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague? (Hardcover)
by Alan P. Zelicoff M.D., Michael Bellomo


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814408656/qid%3D1119235969/sr%3D2-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fbbs%5Fb%5F2%5F1/103-2449787-8270242

[nw_arizona_granny]

Yes, Cuba and Iran are partners in the manufacture of vaccines.

Take a look at some of the links in these searches:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Cuba+Iran+smallpox&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&client=googlet&biw=

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Cuba%20smallpox

[Recovering Hermit]

"Smallpox vaccine is made from live vaccinia virus and does not contain variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Vaccinia virus is a member of the orthopox virus family, which includes smallpox (variola), cowpox, monkeypox, gerbilpox, camelpox and others. When inoculated in the superficial layers of the skin, the virus grows and induces an immune reaction that serves to protect against smallpox."

Michael Jackson, Richard Gere, and Saddam Hussein should be concerned.