[Nita Nupress]

Stop to imagine how silly we would look if we vaccinated everyone (or even made the vaccine available on a voluntary basis) and people died receiving it, and then a terrorist group released their strain of vaccine-resistant smallpox. Ugh.

The vaccine has a history of causing a few problems -- a history that can be easily dismissed amid the concern about a terrorist-induced smallpox epidemic.  Here are a few images from the CDC.  You can go here for more:   http://www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Smallpox/VaccineImages.asp

 

Accidental auto-inoculation of eyelid with vaccinia virus with concurrent cellulitis. Photo courtesy of John M. Leedom, M.D.

 

Eczema vaccinatum in an unvaccinated contact to a vaccinated sibling. [from Fenner F., Henderson DA, et al. Smallpox and its Eradication. WHO. 1988]. 

 

Progressive vaccinia (vaccinia necrosum), which was fatal, in a child with an imunodeficiency. [from Fenner F., Henderson DA, et al. Smallpox and its Eradication. WHO. 1988].

[whenigettime]

Thanks for posting these photos. I hope this causes many to re-consider vaccines (not only smallpox).