To: FITZ
I'll find someone who will share their blister and I'll vaccinate my kids and myself on my own from it. It's a live virus so there is that ability we have to do that. That will give you smallpox. You will infect yourselves. The vacine is a Weakened Virus the full strength virus just gives you smallpox.
So9
To: Servant of the Nine
No. The smallpox vaccine is NOT a weakened form of smallpox virus which is the variola virus, it is an unattenuated related virus called vaccinia. You cannot attenuate pox viruses, they don't work when you do that, you can attenuate other viruses like polio.
186 posted on
10/22/2001 9:05:11 PM PDT by
FITZ
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