FEDERAL SMALLPOX PLAN READY

Las Vegas Sun - thru Drudge and AP national ^ | 10/19/01

[Timesink]

And if that single case of smallpox occurred in ten different major US cities at the same time? Or twenty?

[Centurion2000]

So what happens when they find out that he flew from say one city to Chicago or LAX while he was infected and contagious.

Healthy people get airline crud (too much recycled air) and flu from the airlines all the time. Imagine smallpox in such a stuffy, cramped and stressful environment with LOTS of air recirculating in the cabin.

CDC is woefully underprepared for this.

[Kozak]

Yeah thats the problem alright. The delivery system consists of infected suicidal individuals. Documented cases of 1 infected resulting in 1,000 secondary infections. If we see smallpox its not a game anymore folks. The gloves come off then.

[redhead]

START NOW. Grow the vaccines and VACCINATE THE WHOLE COUNTRY. At one time in the not-too-distant and not-so-stupid past, everyone in the country had a small, round scar on their upper arm, and smallpox was not a threat. Now, nobody has a scar but oldsters, and smallpox is a terrifying possibility. NEVER FORGET. The lessons of the past are LESSONS. We are supposed to learn from lessons. The idea that a disease can be eliminated is a fool's daydream.

[dandelion]

Ask why they are not going to offer us Cidofovir, an FDA approved and available drug they have tested and said to be "suggested effective" in attenuating and even preventing smallpox AFTER infection ... We'd better ask now, we WILL NOT get the chance after we are quarantined...

[2sheep]

Would you believe............?

[Skibane]

The worst reaction is a very rare - one in 300,000 vaccinated babies - but deadly encephalitis.

What this article doesn't mention is that adults receiving the vaccination are also subject to potentially deadly side effects. One recent news report mentioned one in a million dyeing from it. That means that hundreds (or even thousands) of Americans would be killed as a result of attempting to protect against an outbreak that currently doesn't exist. Not a good idea!

Produce the vaccine, make sure it's readily available in all parts of the country, but don't vaccinate unless an outbreak occurs.

[CathyRyan]

I would not hold my breath waiting for the good liberals to agreeing to being quarantined. Somebody is not going to be happy being "trapped" with all those "sick" people. That means somebody is going to have to stand over them with a gun. What will the courts do?

[RickyJ]

Produce the vaccine, make sure it's readily available in all parts of the country, but don't vaccinate unless an outbreak occurs.

Once you get smallpox the vaccine would be worthless to you. Millions would die before everyone got vaccinated, because smallpox is extremely contagious and deadly. We must vaccinate everyone before this tragedy occurs.

[texasbluebell]

The idea that a disease can be eliminated is a fool's daydream.

I always knew that. How come I, just a regular person, always knew that, and yet we had "experts" who just HAD to eliminate this vaccine for all of us. Curses on those fools.

[texasbluebell]

Once you get smallpox the vaccine would be worthless to you.

NOT true. The vaccine is effective once you've had symptoms for up to 5 days!

[Skibane]

Once you get smallpox the vaccine would be worthless to you.

From the article:

It takes fairly close proximity, within about six feet of a person suffering the characteristic rash, to breathe in the smallpox virus and catch the disease. Quickly vaccinating those who live with or work around a patient is protective.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

A single passenger with Influenza "A" was documented by CDC to have infected AT LEAST 74 fellow-passengers on a flight from LaGuardia to San Francisco a few years ago.

There is a lot of interesting information on airline cabin air quality and environmental hazards available, much ofit from the flight attendant's union (and a couple of lawsuits).

[babylonian]

I ain't drinkin' their Kool Aid either!

[TrueBeliever9]

population control with no colateral damage

[steve-b]

If we see smallpox its not a game anymore folks. The gloves come off then.

[tallhappy]

That means that hundreds (or even thousands) of Americans would be killed as a result of attempting to protect against an outbreak that currently doesn't exist. Not a good idea!

Simple. You don't have to take it.

Don't endanger other's lives by opposing it.

[artios]

Why don't they make small pox illegale or it least give it a three day waiting period?

[Skibane]

Don't endanger other's lives by opposing it.

Don't doom hundreds or thousands of Americans to certain death in a blind stampede to fix a problem that doesn't yet exist!