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Smallpox outbreak = scary

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archcommus

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Figures, I had to see this stupid thing on TV which freaked me out big time. Wish I hadn't seen it. Anyway it was about the possibility of terrorist groups releasing smallpox in major U.S. cities and easily killing tens of thousands because it's nearly impossible to contain everybody and because we don't have a vaccine for it. The television program was set up like as if it had already happened, and it was a documentary looking back on it.

Freaky...
 
The lack of vaccine has been somewhat overblown. They just finished up a big study at the U of Iowa a few months back showing that they could take the current vaccine and dillute it down a healthy amount and it's still effective in innoculating a person. They can dillute the current supply down enough to effectively treat most of the population.

At least that's what the paper said.
 
Originally posted by: archcommus87
Figures, I had to see this stupid thing on TV which freaked me out big time. Wish I hadn't seen it. Anyway it was about the possibility of terrorist groups releasing smallpox in major U.S. cities and easily killing tens of thousands because it's nearly impossible to contain everybody and because we don't have a vaccine for it. The television program was set up like as if it had already happened, and it was a documentary looking back on it.

Freaky...
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What are you talking about we do have a smallpox vaccine.
 
Medical Investigation did an episode on smallpox Friday. They thought it was domestic terrorism but it turned out it was natural... from a corpse who died 200 years ago.

They used a drug called Cifividol or something...
 
Before 1972, smallpox vaccination was recommended for all US children at age 1 year. Most states required that each child be vaccinated before school entry. The only other requirement for vaccination was for military recruits and tourists visiting foreign countries. Most countries required that the individual be successfully vaccinated within a 3-year period prior to entering the country. Routine vaccination in the United States stopped in 1972 and since then, few persons younger than 27 years have been vaccinated. The US Census Bureau reported that in 1998, approximately 114 million persons, or 42% of the US population, were aged 29 years or younger.

In addition, the immune status of those who were vaccinated more than 27 years ago is not clear. The duration of immunity, based on the experience of naturally exposed susceptible persons, has never been satisfactorily measured. Neutralizing antibodies are reported to reflect levels of protection, although this has not been validated in the field. These antibodies have been shown to decline substantially during a 5- to 10-year period. Thus, even those who received the recommended single-dose vaccination as children do not have lifelong immunity. However, among a group who had been vaccinated at birth and at ages 8 and 18 years as part of a study, neutralizing antibody levels remained stable during a 30-year period.31 Because comparatively few persons today have been successfully vaccinated on more than 1 occasion, it must be assumed that the population at large is highly susceptible to infection.
http://smallpox.phages.org/
 
Originally posted by: MySoS
Originally posted by: archcommus87
Figures, I had to see this stupid thing on TV which freaked me out big time. Wish I hadn't seen it. Anyway it was about the possibility of terrorist groups releasing smallpox in major U.S. cities and easily killing tens of thousands because it's nearly impossible to contain everybody and because we don't have a vaccine for it. The television program was set up like as if it had already happened, and it was a documentary looking back on it.

Freaky...
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What are you talking about we do have a smallpox vaccine.
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Just saying what the program said.

 
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