[SoldierMedic]

This guy should have been more careful. It's not as if he wasn't warned when he recieved the inocculation.

[JohnBovenmyer]

As a Dermatologist I'm pleasantly surprised this hadn't happened sooner after we resumed smallpox vaccinations. It was the most common of the bad complications in the historical era of vaccination and by the statistics of that era there should have been several cases of this by now. That probably reflects both a greater concern over the risk these days and that the select population being vaccinated is probably better at following directions than the general population. No group is perfect and when there's no recent example to validate a risk people mentally downgrade it. Hopefully the treatment (I presume the 'strong antiviral drug' is cidofivir) will work as well as theory predicted.