[tallhappy]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not about to use 20-year-old vaccine in my practice without knowing that the vaccine was needed. I certainly would not use it in our children, unless I was convinced that a threat exists.

No one asked you. Whatever vaccine is given won't be "20 years old" and there is a threat.

I do have the scar from the smallpox vaccine on my arm. My doctor gave it to me in the late 1970's

The routine vaccination was ended in aro9und 1972. What are you doing getting it in the late 70's. I think small pox immunization should begin again. Maybe it will not be used. But if it is, staring immunization after that will be too late for the first to get it.

[FITZ]

I want my kids to get it ASAP, I saw that the CDC put smallpox back on the list of reportable diseases back in June of this year. The reason the scar was put on the arm when they did the vaccinations before is because the government decided it wanted to easily see who had been vaccinated, the shot can be in other places.

[Robert Lomax]

My baby bother, born in 1970, got his smallpox vac on his leg. Remember it well, because the doc said if it left an ugly scar it would only be on his upper leg near the hip. I know I got it. but its covered by the eagle, globe, and anchor.

Have military peronnel been getting the smallpox vaccination?

[jpthomas]

U.S. military personnel continued to be vaccinated against smallpox into the 1980s as a precaution against the possible use of the virus as a bio-weapon. I just pulled out my immunization records, and my last recorded smallpox vaccination was administered to me in 1984.

[Don Joe]

"No one asked you. Whatever vaccine is given won't be '20 years old' and there is a threat."

Remarkably consistent, isn't he? This is the same "doctor" who -- on the same day he showed up on FR -- went into a posting frenzy where he insulted anyone who suggested that his advice was bogus. What was his advice? He advised that it was silly paranoia and panic mongering to suggest taking antibiotics before inhalation anthrax symptoms appear.

Yup -- he was the lone "medical" voice in the world insisting that you should wait until inhalation anthrax symptoms appear before beginning treatment. He said it was like any other disease, and thus, there was no reason to begin treatment on contact.

[chantal7]

The routine vaccination was ended in aro9und 1972. What are you doing getting it in the late 70's. I think small pox immunization should begin again. Maybe it will not be used. But if it is, staring immunization after that will be too late for the first to get it.

I had a smallpox immunization before 1976 and again in 1976 right before we left for the Middle East. It was required to enter Iran. The doc didn't have it on hand because it wasn't routinely given anymore here in the U.S. so he had to special order it for us from a drug company or the government.