Posted on 10/21/2001 10:33:10 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
Thats my understanding to. Thanks for posting this!! Common sense and calm must prevail. Panick and fear is exactly what the perps who did this to America want. I won't give it to them. I think we need to be alert.. but we also need to stay calm. Trust our Government. They are on top of this as best as can be.. we have no other choice than to trust them at this time. So lets just do that.. be alert.. be cautious.. but not fearful or panicked. I hate seeing people give in to what the terrorists want.
To those who don't understand.. a disease like SmallPox and the vaccine which is from the disease doesn't age. It is still the disease, the cells from SmallPox could be a saved forever. It doesn't matter if they are a hundred years old. They are still SmallPox. That is what the vaccine is made from. Heck.. I just read a story where they did DNA from a Dinosaur and found disease .. cultured it!! Seems that a lot of Dinosaurs had putrified skin lesions.
They are testing now to see if the existing vaccines can be diluted and still be effective. In other words.. can one vaccine serve 5 people instead of one person.
I heard that Spring of 2002 would be a likely date for completion. Right now, they could vaccinate an immediate outbreak. People in the medical field are on alert. This is actually being handled quite well (all things considered).
I do think someone previously was asleep on the job, hint hint.. especially knowing what they did at the time. But now we have to deal with the NOW.. and it "is" being handled.
Thanks again, and God Bless!!
My grandmother used to tell me how she intentionally exposed her girls to Whooping cough, to get it over with....my mom intentionally exposed us to measles,mumps and chicken pox..
Today young parents seem to think that all these are "so deadly" that immunization is a necessity
The truth is for 99.9% they were nothing more than childhood illnesses.
I do not wish small pox on this nation..but if given the choice,it wins over Eboli
In the meantime we had all better think on ways to keep our immune systems healthy..get plenty of sleep take vitamins,Garlic pills,green tea, etc, and no Alcohol...
Use good handwashing..(favor regular soap and friction over the anti bacterial type)...We have to go back to grandmas day for a while..
Why?
I was also wondering if they have a vaccination that they give cows against cowpox (I haven't stayed up on all vaccinations and meds they have for animals) ...if humans were vaccinated against cowpox, would the antibodies our bodies would produce from that vaccination...if one exists...also protect us against smallpox?
We may have to look in unconventional areas to save our kids since the government really isn't in a position at this time to help us. Just looking at alternatives.
I have read studies that the antibacterial soaps kill only 90-95% of the bacteria present..the remaining breed and are already resistant to the antibacterial contents..so in effect you end up with superbugs that are fully resistant to the antibacterial soap.there are no "weak" bugs left to "breed" with..so ya get lots of John Wayne"s.
Regular soap and GOOD friction will kill most of what is on your hands..as will scrubbing countertops etc.
That's a good idea, too.
Depite their overall irrationality, terrorists would have to calculate the potential damage not just to the U.S., but the inevitable damage to the entire world including their followers, families, and indeed to the entire third-world Islamic population (which is significantly more prone to the devastation of communicable diseases than is the Western world).
Bottom line is that communicable disease "weapons" would be absolutely suicidal to Islamic terrorists, unless they are looking for a global doomsday which would certainly be far more devastating to Muslims than to the West.
Vaccinia virus (cowpox) confers huuman immunity to smallpox, which is why it is used.
BTW, Canada has been whining that any vaccine acquisition program we conduct should "include Canada".
Agreed. Smallpox (or any communicable disease) would quickly become a global epidemic, and it would hit most effectively in third-world countries (e.g., the Middle East, South Asia, Indonesia).
It's not even the kind of gamble an Islamic terrorist would entertain, it's absolutely inevitable.
Why are they stopping the tetanus boosters?
I believe that the risks of immunization are worth it. Besides, since 1980 we have had AIDS come up and spur research into viruses, anti viral drugs, so that the statistics of adverse reactions are changed by new medical advances, even a new vaccine that they are making that will probably be alot safer than the old vaccine against smallpox.
Cowpox is a much milder disease than smallpox so if there are bad reactions they'll be along the cowpox path not smallpox. In the last few years we have been having our kids vaccinated against chickenpox which is a usually mild disease like cowpox is and the vaccination or the disease itself has a certain inherent risk of adverse reactions but people still vaccinate their kids or take them to "chickenpox parties". For the record, my kids had chickenpox before the vaccine came out and I didn't take them to a "chickenpox party".
Look at the risk I am in if bitten by a rattlesnake and if they still make that antivenom via horses. I am severely allergic to horses so I have the choice of either dealing with the venom without the antivenom or else taking the antivenom and the medical team having to stand by incase I have a severe allergic reaction to the antivenom via horse host, if they can't find an antivenom not made from horse hosts. We all have to put up with certain risks and decisions.
I'd have my kids and myself re/vaccinated against smallpox in a heart beat if it were offered and available. Others might choose not to have their children or themselves vaccinated.
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