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To: Exigence
What is your point? I attempted to address your question. Perhaps you should restate your question in clearer terms. Do you have a question? Or are you just attempting to belittle?
96 posted on 10/22/2001 12:28:03 AM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: bonesmccoy
Do you have a question? Or are you just attempting to belittle?

Well, one of us is trying to belittle... but it isn't me. I think you need to take your ego down a peg or two. The "question" is my first sentence in #73.

104 posted on 10/22/2001 12:45:24 AM PDT by Exigence
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To: bonesmccoy
http://www.uhs.wisc.edu/ex/selfcare/HopkinsFAQ.php

Here's the info. I was referring to. One in 300,000 will develop some degree of encephalitis. A fourth of those will die -- and another site suggests that the risk is most concentrated in children under 18 who are being vaccinated for the first time. A tolerable risk, if we have an outbreak. But, if we don't, vaccinating 300 million people would result in 250 deaths, by my math. That's an Oklahoma City.

As I read about the issue, it seems the idea of producing the vaccine, then distributing it and having it ready is prudent. However, I'm not sure prophylactic vaccination with the risk of side effects in young children is yet warranted. Nor has any smallpox expert I've seen interviewed recommended this.

115 posted on 10/22/2001 1:08:46 AM PDT by Exigence
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