[AZJeep]

Smallpox vaccine used to be pretty safe. We all senior citizens got it a long time ago with no problems!

[gitmo]

I have a friend who is a retired doctor. He said he is so ashamed of what his profession has become.

[logi_cal869]

I’m not sure what to make of this report, but there’s this from long ago:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-most-dangerous-vaccine/

[JohnBovenmyer]

What we seniors had way back was the original style smallpox vaccine, of which the “Dryvax” mentioned briefly in the article was the last installment. It was known for having skin, rather than heart, side effects. Although the article doesn’t clearly state, most of those therein reported having developed heart problems likely had taking the newer, higher tech, allegedly safer (at least it hasn’t seemed to have been troubled by the skin issues the old literature reports the old vaccine had had) ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine, which came out in 2008.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> with no problems!

Maybe

[KarlInOhio]

I was looking up the smallpox vaccine death rate and found this page from 60 Minutes: The Most Dangerous Vaccine

The death rate from the smallpox vaccine was one in a million and the serious complication rate was 74 per million. Compare that to the COVID vaccine complication rate and remember how much deadlier smallpox was than COVID.

[piasa]

Probably the Fed of American Scientists is pushing yet anothat antivax theme as part of their war on US biodefense measures.

[LadyDoc]

Smallpox vaccine we received 50 years ago was not safe. It could kill people with poor immune systems, and it could spread all over in children with eczema. That is why they no longer give it in the military. Smallpox as a disease has been eliminated but samples still survive in biolabs and so there is a worry terrorists could spread it. This was a worry after 9 11, and they started giving the new vaccine to first responders but stopped after a few reports of myocarditis.

But it is still used in the military. And a variation of it was given to high risk groups when monkeypox started to spread. So this is a worry.

[Jim Noble]

Smallpox vaccine has never been "safe" in the modern sense of the word.

Injuries and death from smallpox vaccination were known and accepted risks of its use at a time when epidemics in unvaccinated populations had a 30% mortality rate.

Your post is like, "when I was a kid, we all got measles (or mumps, or chicken pox) and it was no big deal".

Between 1950 and 1959, 5000 children died of measles. Now, that's on a background of 100 million cases, but that's 10,000 moms and dads bereaved, who knows how many siblings, grandmas and grandpas with an horrific family tragedy.

That's not nothing.

Current average of measles deaths in vaccinated children = 0.

[GailA]

Had 1 in HS, you have to be going into zones that have Smallpox.

We were told it was good for the rest of our lives. TB tine tests were yearly. I’m 74, so that was quite awhile ago.