Smallpox I: U.S. Residents to Be Denied Vaccine if CDC Plan Is Adopted

Global Security Newswire ^ | June 26, 2002 | Mike Nartker

[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 year’s anthrax attacks.

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[Paleo Conservative]

This article had a nasty copyright notice, so you will have to follow the links to read it. This article is published on the web in a newsletter called the Global Security Newswire on the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) website Apparently NTI is a foundation set up by Ted Turner and run by former Senator Sam Nun. Kind of interesting to know that one of the major expert advocates against allowing voluntary vaccination prior to an outbreak of smallpox is named "Mohammad".

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[Paleo Conservative]

Fire when ready.

[Paleo Conservative]

Nun = Nunn

[blondee123]

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??????

[Paleo Conservative]

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.

[CPT Clay]

Didn't I have a smallpox vaccine in '63?

[taxcontrol]

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

[Paleo Conservative]

They only last five to ten years.

[null and void]

Mohammad Akhter, executive director of the American Public Health Association...

I think I see the problem...

[B4Ranch]

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.

[EllaMinnow]

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.

[Paleo Conservative]

Actually based on his picture, I would say he looks Pakistani or Indian.

Mohammad N. Akhter, MD, MPH (biography)
Interview by Bryant Gumbel

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[null and void]

So? It was a US born ethnic Indian Møøse Limb who objected to my putting a Flag in my cubicle on 9/12...

[Dixie Mom]

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

[David Hunter]

Akhter agreed with the CDC’s 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, I’d 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.

[moteineye]

His name sounds like he is a Muslim.