We don't need no steenkin' smallpox vaccination! - Page 2

wolf · 12-16-2002, 07:59 PM

That pic up top that started this thread ... while it's being presented as an instance of a bad reaction to smallpox vaccine, it looks like a nasty case of pink eye ...

Griff · 12-18-2002, 10:59 AM

Not all hospitals are on board with the vaccine.

Officials at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond said yesterday that the risk of dangerous side effects of the vaccine and inadvertent transmission to patients outweighs the remote threat of an attack with a virus that has not been seen since the 1970s.

Officials at three other large medical centers - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Emory Medical Center in Atlanta, and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics - are leaning against inoculating their staffs.

russotto · 12-19-2002, 10:01 AM

You know, for all these worries about the smallpox vaccine, we seem to be forgetting that just about everyone older than myself was routinely vaccinated with it as an infant.

Our standards of risk have gotten much tighter in the past 30 years, and that's mostly a bad thing. But now the Nervous Nellies find themselves in a double-bind -- worry overmuch about a vaccine, or worry overmuch about biological warfare? Oh, the HANDWRINGING....

Me, I'm a fatalist. I figure that if someone does use smallpox as a biological weapon, they'll have engineered it to work in vaccinated individuals as well.

Hubris Boy · 12-19-2002, 12:40 PM

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Originally posted by russotto
You know, for all these worries about the smallpox vaccine, we seem to be forgetting that just about everyone older than myself was routinely vaccinated with it as an infant.

Yep. And for about five years or so, we were all immune. Too bad the damn thing wears off, innit?

12-16-2002, 07:59 PM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	That pic up top that started this thread ... while it's being presented as an instance of a bad reaction to smallpox vaccine, it looks like a nasty case of pink eye ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-18-2002, 10:59 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Not all hospitals are on board with the vaccine. Officials at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond said yesterday that the risk of dangerous side effects of the vaccine and inadvertent transmission to patients outweighs the remote threat of an attack with a virus that has not been seen since the 1970s. Officials at three other large medical centers - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Emory Medical Center in Atlanta, and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics - are leaning against inoculating their staffs. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-19-2002, 10:01 AM	#3
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Paranoia You know, for all these worries about the smallpox vaccine, we seem to be forgetting that just about everyone older than myself was routinely vaccinated with it as an infant. Our standards of risk have gotten much tighter in the past 30 years, and that's mostly a bad thing. But now the Nervous Nellies find themselves in a double-bind -- worry overmuch about a vaccine, or worry overmuch about biological warfare? Oh, the HANDWRINGING.... Me, I'm a fatalist. I figure that if someone does use smallpox as a biological weapon, they'll have engineered it to work in vaccinated individuals as well.

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