[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.