NO SMALLPOX VACCINATIONS FOR AMERICANS

Fox News | 6/20/02 | Fox News

[goody2shooz]

Heard around 12:25 pm on Fox News Alert: the CDC, in a panel of twelve "experts", have announced that no widespread vaccinations of Americans will be conducted.

[cake_crumb]

Can't find any confirmation from the CDC....hoax?

[JRandomFreeper]

many doctors forget to ask such questions regarding one's health prior to giving any vaccination.

I don't generally get my vaccinations from doctors, just some enlisted medical type. I don't know of anyone getting any questions except maybe the females, and then just about being pregnant.

/john

[america-rules]

"You get the vaccination BEFORE the outbreak - after is too late"

Wrong - It can be given after an outbreak and still be effective.

Do you're own research and find out for yourself !

[NautiNurse]

You get the vaccination BEFORE the outbreak - after is too late

The incubation period for smallpox is roughly 12-14 days. The smallpox vaccine is considered effective administered up to five days following exposure (before the rash appears).

Interesting reading: The Vaccine Reaction--What Every American Needs to Know

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I think the only reason they're not allowing vaccination for the general public is that there's a fairly high mortality rate (as medicines go) associated with the vaccine.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, the projected number of deaths is about one and a half days worth of traffic fatalities. Are you more afraid of being killed by a terrorist attack with small pox than you are of being killed in traffic in the next 2 days?

Neither one of them sounds likely, but either could happen. But taking the vaccine protects your neighbor, too--by reducing the payoff to the potential bioterrorist so he might be less inclined to do it.

[carenot]

(you could get the shot in your hip).

It wasn't a shot when I had to take them.

They broke a little glass rod and scratched my arm with the broken glass.

But it never made a scar like it was supposed to on me. I had it 3 times. My Mom finally got a statement saying I was immume, after three tries.

[MindyW]

I've had five of them. One as a pre-schooler and one each of the four years we lived in Italy back in the 60s. And not a one of them left that nasty little scar that most folks get.

[Ditter]

You are right, why didn't anyone mention the danger before when everyone got one?

[Saundra Duffy]

I wanted this for my grandchildren.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Why not give the option of receiving a vaccination if you want to?

Because all the smallpox deaths resulting from an attack on an unvaccinated populace make for good anti-"raghead" propaganda? </TINFOIL OFF>

[SCalGal]

"The incubation period for smallpox is roughly 12-14 days. The smallpox vaccine is considered effective administered up to five days following exposure (before the rash appears)."

Considering that the government cannot even manage to send bullets with the national guard (LA riots), I wouldn't trust them to get vaccines to us within 5 days of exposure.

Best to be prepared - that means get vaccinated ahead of time.

[goody2shooz]

Some Americans don't want to be vaccinated. That is their choice and not some bureaucrat's mandate.

I posted this on another thread. I'm fully aware that some people can't get vaccinated. But that is NO reason for the rest of us to take our chances with a virulent killer virus.

[Let's Roll]

That is how it works under ideal, controlled conditions. A whole bunch of people in the first wave will be exposed without even knowing it until it's too late. Then once it is known, some sort of system will have to be in place and ready to roll instantly - highly organized etc.

Fine if you want to take that chance - this ain't the flu. Again the safety of your neighbors doesn't depend on your willingness to be vaccinated - it depends on their willingness. I just hope it's even available.

[Kaslin]

I wasn't asked anything about that when I got mine in March.

Did you get just a vaccination a Smallpox vaccination in March? Big difference. However if it was the latter the nurse should have asked. But perhaps they don't anymore

[goody2shooz]

A communist? You're full of it.

I want the option to choose for myself whether to vaccinate or not. And I've been paying for my own vaccinations for a very long time.

The way the government has it set up, you can't get a vaccination unless there is an outbreak of smallpox in your general vicinity - then you cannot refuse the vaccination!

[NautiNurse]

The vaccine is in no way a magic bullet. First, it may not be effective against a bioterrorist viral strain.

More disturbing are the potential complications from the vaccine. This can include blindness caused by touching the vaccination site when the virus is shedding, then rubbing the eye.

Mortality rates from smallpox (roughly 30%) were estimated in the period prior to widespread antibiotic availability for the common secondary infections.

[Jhoffa_]

As I said, if you want to go and pay your doctor for one.. fine.

I think you should certainly be free to do so.. However, if you want me to help pay or if you want to take me with you then I object.

I honestly think the terrorism threat is making people see monsters in the shadows, but if you don't.. Hey! more power to you.

Just leave me out of it, that's all I ask.

[Kaslin]

I remember the swineflu vaccination. That was a joke and I refused to get one.

[JRandomFreeper]

I got everything in March. Smallpox, hep, flu, and 7 or 8 others. Everything but anthrax. I could barely drive the standard transmission for the next week.

/john