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Our family DR. at that time had personally seen smallpox in the Caribbean the year before(and it was NOT reported to WHO), and thought that not have any more vaccine was stupid. How many cases have been misdiagnosed or not reported for the almighty tourista dollar?

Oh wow, I said almighty tourista dollar like that is a bad thing! It's not just when it keeps diseases which can kill us secret.

As an aside, my DR. reported the case of smallpox he saw to the CDC at the time and he was not believed, he was told the disease did not exist.

CDC sometimes has the reputation of being egalitarian. I requested CDC to run blood tests for Hantavirus on a 5 year old in our ICU. He had many signs of a renal hantavirus infection. However, CDC unilaterally chose to ignore me, despite my personally delivering the blood samples to our county health infection control offices. Instead, they ignored me. One year later a story appeared in the local TV news. In another adjacent area, rats were identified with the Hantavirus. I was cussing because we could have published the story about the 5 year old, but because the testing facilities are locked up at CDC...there was no way to independently identify the germ. Doesn't that just take the cake? CDC looks to be operating a bit differently this time.