[rolling_stone]

I hope you are right, but I my posting was only to cause some discussion and thought. What part am I wrong about, everything?

Indeed there are two seperate views on vaccination and I suggest you read further for more information. I wonder if smallpox actually was spread by bedbugs or some other manner?

[tallhappy]

Indeed there are two seperate views on vaccination

It is generous to call one "a view", but, if so, OK, there are two views.

One based on reality, one not. One right, one wrong.

The anti-vaccine lunatic fringe do not distribute accurate information. It is part of the same strange psychological dynamic that brings us lunatic environmentalism and animal rightsim.

The small pox vaccine was given for decades all over the world and resulted in the erradication of the disease -- one that killed millions of people.

There is not time or patience to indulge the lunatic fringe at this time.

[FITZ]

I believe that smallpox is spread much like colds and flus, which means "clean" people are going to get it just as easily as others. Same with chickenpox, epidemics race through a population only with this disease the results are terrible. We will be no better off than the people in North and South America when smallpox hit them, if anything it'll be far worse because we aren't isolated towns and villages like they were back then, people travel much more, if smallpox pops up in New York City, it will be in Chicago withing hours.