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Smallpox I: U.S. Residents to Be Denied Vaccine if CDC Plan Is Adopted
Global Security Newswire ^
| June 26, 2002
| Mike Nartker
Posted on 07/11/2002 12:28:27 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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The CDC does not expect a high level of public demand for the vaccine prior to an outbreak, Grant said. Mohammad Akhter, executive director of the American Public Health Association, agreed and said there has not been the same level of demand from the public for the smallpox vaccine as there was for Cipro during last years anthrax attacks.
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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bioterrorism; biowarfare; opic; samnunn; smallpox; tedturner; vaccines
To: bonesmccoy; David Hunter; Jim Noble; LadyDoc
Fire when ready.
To: Paleo Conservative
Nun = Nunn
To: Paleo Conservative
Gee, it's really nice all the loose lips that are flapping in so many of the articles here tonite. Let's surely tell them how many doses of smallpox vaccine we have readily available. Let's also tell them exactly where we have troops, what our exact date to attack saddam is, etc. yadda, yadda, yadda!!! Is our govenment inviting an attack??????
To: blondee123
First, I didn't even post that information on this site. It was already posted on the web. Second, there have been numerous posts on smallpox posted in the last several weeks. Third, if you care to read them, the number quoted was obsolete several months before this article was published. Aventis Pasteur found about 85 million doses of smallpox vaccine in its freezer. Four, there have already been studies on diluting these vaccines 5:1 and 10:1 with good results. This means in an emergency, we already have enough doses for 500 million to 1 billion people. Five, the New York Times published a story on July 9 about a Yale-MIT study that said a ring vaccination strategy in the case of an outbreak would cause 110,000 deaths. That study also said that if 40% of the population were voluntarily vaccinated prior to any outbreak, only 450 people would die if mass vaccinations were started immediately after the detection of an outbreak. Six, the current policy is to only vaccinate 500,000 emergency and health care workers.
To: Paleo Conservative
Didn't I have a smallpox vaccine in '63?
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posted on
07/11/2002 6:10:14 AM PDT
by
CPT Clay
To: CPT Clay
The guys in the white coats say that the vaccine "wears off" after 10 years providing little to no protection - only an improved reaction to additional booster shots.
Shoot -- open this up to the free market. I'll bet you have enough vaccine within a year or two. Could create a whole new market. After all, there is still the threat from Monkey Pox, Camel Pox, AIDS, etc. etc. If people start buying vaccines then there will be more funding for additional research.
Just my .02
To: CPT Clay
They only last five to ten years.
To: Paleo Conservative
Mohammad Akhter, executive director of the American Public Health Association...I think I see the problem...
To: null and void
Control you prejudices. The Arabs are our FRIENDS!
I guess you're like I am and don't like the gov't telling me who is my friend and who isn't.
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posted on
07/11/2002 7:53:45 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
To: Paleo Conservative
I just did my Zogby online monthly email poll, and for the first time they're polling on a willingness to receive a smallpox vaccination.
Probably doesn't mean a darned thing, but they are asking.
To: B4Ranch
To: *Bio_warfare
To: Paleo Conservative
So? It was a US born ethnic Indian Møøse Limb who objected to my putting a Flag in my cubicle on 9/12...
To: Paleo Conservative
Pakistani--he went to med school in Pakistan:
http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm
Information on:
MOHAMMAD NASIR AKHTER MD
Location
800 EYE ST NW
WASHINGTON , DC 20001
Office Phone
202-777-2430
Gender
MALE
Primary Practice Specialty Self-Designated by Physician
GENERAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Secondary Practice Specialty Self-Designated by Physician
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Medical School
KING EDWARD MED COLL, UNIV OF PUNJAB, LAHORE, PAKISTAN
Year of Graduation from Medical School
1967
Residency Training
MT SINAI SCH MED-COMM MED , PUBLIC HEALTH & GENERAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
ELMHURST HOSP CTR-MT SINAI , PUBLIC HEALTH & GENERAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
UNIV CA DAVIS MED CTR , NEUROLOGY
Major Professional Activity
ADMINISTRATION
American Board of Medical Specialties Certification
Copyright 2001 American Board of Medical Specialties. All rights reserved.
AM BRD OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
To: Paleo Conservative
Akhter agreed with the CDCs decision not to provide the vaccine to physicians, adding that the focus should not be on individuals.We need to protect our community, Akhter said. We need to protect our nation.
What kind of nonsensical argument is this? A community is just a group of individuals. Vaccinating a significant proportion of the USA's individuals voluntarily, in advance, would slow down the progress, and thus the damage, a Smallpox release could do. His logic is crazy, talk about Socialist thinking!
Ring vaccination, however, would not be able to adequately halt the rapid spread of smallpox once an outbreak began, Pena said.
If you can remember seven people you had contact with in the last few days, Id be surprised, he said.
This is true, its a shame the CDC don't deal in clear thinking logical arguments.
Its time the government released the Smallpox vaccine for voluntary administration.
To: Dixie Mom
His name sounds like he is a Muslim.
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