26 Sep
2001
26 Sep
'01
11:43 a.m.
Smallpox is officially "eradicated," per the UN. Not only are you not forced to get vaccinated - the vaccine is no longer available. This would be okay if there were no more reservoirs of the disease, but in fact the virus is preserved at several locations, and could be released either by accident or by design. Marc de Piolenc Iligan Harmon Seaver wrote:
So what's the deal with smallpox anyway? When I was a kid we all got innoculated against it, and it was supposed to be a lifetime thing. In fact, my wife, whose a RN, had to get it again some years ago for work, but it didn't take, proving that the antibodies were still active. Did they stop vaccinating everyone for smallpox at some point?