What is known about the National Vaccine Information Center? Reliable source?
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Would Vaccine Cause More Harm?
Some experts also believe the smallpox vaccine has severe health risks.
"The smallpox vaccine is the most reactive [disease causing] vaccine that we have ever used," said Barbara Loe Fisher, spokeswoman for the National Vaccine Information Center. "I do know that brain complications occurred within one to six weeks of the original smallpox vaccination, most frequently after the first dose, and that the reaction rate was between 1 in 159 and 1 in every 6,500 vaccinated persons."
According to Fisher, vaccination-related brain complications were most common in children under 2 years of age, and 50 percent of those children who developed the complications died from them. She also said 35 percent of adults who developed brain complications from the smallpox vaccine also died.
Fisher asserted that "those in fragile health, immune compromised, are at a higher risk," of complications from the vaccine, but individuals who are genetically predisposed against experiencing complications are at a lesser risk for developing disease.
"What we have to do in this crisis situation ... is to keep a perspective and a balance," Fisher said. "In any mass vaccination campaign, you are going to have casualties, and the number of casualties are going to determine if you are screening out" people likely to develop adverse reactions to the vaccine.
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Really? Were they advocating withholding antibiotics from someone at risk for inhalation anthrax until after symptoms appeared -- the same advice you gave on your first day here at FR?