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To: edayna
I agree that small pox is the most worrisome potential threat. It is highly contagious and has a 30% mortality rate. No one in this country under the age of 30 has been immunized for small pox.

After small pox was eradicated in the late sixties and early seventies only the CDC in Atlanta and a Soviet lab in Moscow were allowed to keep live viruses. Did the F'ing Soviets screw around with this virus and have they had a security breech ? I wonder what classified information our government knows. I doubt they would be ordering tens of millions of vaccines if they knew the Moscow viruses were secure and unmolested.

Unfortunately, some vaccines have a tiny rate of significant/tragic complications. However, you can't live life worrying about the one in a million tragedy when you are trying to prevent known pestilence such as polio, pertussis, small pox, etc. I am a physician and have had all my children vaccinated and also get my flu shot every year. Influenza kills thousands every year (mostly the elderly and debilated). Could my family or I have a tragic idiosyncratic reaction to a vaccine ? Sure, but I'll take those odds.

4 posted on 10/02/2001 11:44:02 PM PDT by Maynerd
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To: Maynerd
The major worry would be that someone sneaked off with a sample of the Moscow virus. However, we would do well to check the CDC for names tied to terrorists...
7 posted on 10/03/2001 12:50:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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