Manure.
There are exactly two types of vaccinations: Live culture and dead culture.
In dead culture, just a portion of the virus is used, usually the outer coat, so that your body will "learn" that chemical signature and develop antibodies which will also be effective against any arrival of the "real" virus.
In live culture, a *crippled* form of the real virus is used, one which reproduces in the body, but lacks the ability to cause the original dangerous disease. It just multiplies harmlessly around in your body for a bit until your body develops effective antibodies and wipes it out, again leaving you with lasting protection against any future similar infection.
*NEITHER* form of vaccine "puts the [actual disease-producing] virus out into the population".
Period.
If the smallpox vaccine they're manufacturing is the dead form, there's no issue at all of needing "bandages".
If the vaccine is the live form, the *only* thing that could spread person to person if the infected injection site is not properly covered is the *LIVE VACCINE*. In other words, you could actually indirectly *vaccinate* other people who came into contact with it. You would *not* give them "smallpox".
If the article isn't entirely off base, what they're talking about is the risk of giving other people an accidental vaccination, with the usual risk of adverse reactions to vaccination, especially if they're high-risk individuals for allergic reactions or have weakened immune systems. Not to mention the fact that any pus oozing from your skin could conceivably spread any other pathogens you happened to have in your body, like Hepatitis, AIDS, etc.
People with immune deficiencies, and people with eczema or other open sores on their skin can get over inoculated with the virus as it will take up residence in all open wounds. So people in the household or close friends of people who are vaccinated and shedding cow pox virus can be at risk if they have immune deficiencies from cancer treatment, transplant immunosuppression, steroid treatment, etc. Plus those with skin rashes and lesions are at risk.
To understand why we all got vaccinated back then you have to realize how great a killer small pox was and that the survivors were often terribly disfigured with scars.
That the U.S. and Britain are prepared to reintroduce vaccination tells you they must know something about what Saddam has been cooking up these past years. That to me is a terrible crime against humanity in itself and deserves the death penalty.
The vaccine virus is cowpox (vaccinia), not smallpox (variola).