[Miss Marple]

Saddam has smallpox. That has been documented by defectors from his bio-weapons program. The government has been concerned about smallpox since shortly after 9/11. Eli Lilly's CEO has met with Senator Frist several times, and the Indianapolis paper carried a story about Lilly testing to see if one of their anti-cancer drugs would be effective against smallpox.

Personally, I take this seriously, I want my family vaccinated, I will be re-vaccinated (since no one knows for sure how long immunity lasts after 30 years) and I suggest that second-guessing and looking for hidden motives in every operation of the government can be counter-productive. At some point you have to have a little trust, and this administration is trustwowrthy.

[Robert_Paulson2]

tests show any residual is plenty effective... even up to 45 years I read last week...

over half of the adult population is safe.

I trust...

... but want to verify.

the portland terrorist, arrested yesterday, had worked in the mayor's office and had access to infrastructure data and personnell... these folks are no doubt planning on something bigger than spot "small pox" outbreaks.

small pox, only half of us could catch, and half of the people we contact could catch that... It could be easily caught, and a quarantined area vaccinated en masse to stop the spread of the disease... pretty quickly.

"small pox" is a big enough demon to get us thinking... but I wonder if there might not be something else they are not telling us. It doesn't hurt to ask, speculate and consider... it's what we do here. You know that.

[templar]

At some point you have to have a little trust, and this administration is trustwowrthy.

How so?

[Hila]

Trusting the administration on this issue may be fine, yet, the government itself keeps bringing the accountability issue of how risky the vaccinations may be. And then, the terrorists may use something else which is not fought by smallpox vaccines.

[southland]

I will get the small pox vaccination ASAP. No point in ignoring the potential problem. When they start spreading diseases why let one easily thwarted bring us down??