[happygrl]

Read this article; "The Demon in the Freezer" Then decide if you would be vaccinated.

http://cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm

[Texasforever]

Look, as I said to another poster. If you are more afraid of a vaccine than you are the disease, then by all means refuse the vaccine. In the case of small pox with the near eradication for so many years all residual immunity is long gone. The effect on people now would be very similar to what happened to the American Indians. I can tell you this though, those that refuse vaccination even with an ongoing outbreak and contract the disease will be quarantined without a whole lot of sympathy.

[FITZ]

I've been vaccinated ---I would choose to have my kids vaccinated against smallpox as quickly as I could ---even if I had to do it myself.

[LurkedLongEnough]

On March 28, I got the following email from the New England Journal of Medicine (subscriber list). The posted article only reconfirms the apprehension I felt by reading the email.

THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

EARLY RELEASE

Because of possible public health implications, the following articles are being published early (on March 28, 2002). They are now available on our Web site (http://www.nejm.org) and will appear in the April 25 issue of the Journal.

__________________________________________________________________

Perspective: Smallpox and Bioterrorism - J.M. Drazen

Clinical Responses to Undiluted and Diluted Smallpox Vaccine - S.E. Frey and Others

Dose-Related Effects of Smallpox Vaccine - S.E. Frey and Others

Current Concepts: Diagnosis and Management of Smallpox - J.G. Breman and D.A. Henderson

Editorial: Smallpox Vaccination Policy -- The Need for Dialogue - A.S. Fauci

Sounding Board: The Case for Voluntary Smallpox Vaccination - W.J. Bicknell

Images in Clinical Medicine: Eczema Vaccinatum -- A Timely Reminder - A.E. Moses and R. Cohen-Poradosu

Letter to the Editor: Smallpox, October 1945 - M. Dworetzky

[kidd]

Thanks for the link. Yipes.