http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/11/26/smallpox.vaccine/index.html
Being 38 - I've already had a the vaccine, but I'd probably need a booster if there were to be a problem. In the side bar of the article there were some interesting stats.
* The last natural smallpox case was in Somalia in 1977.
* Vaccine effective if given within 4 days of exposure.
* Vaccine does not contain the smallpox virus.
* Vaccine is made from a virus called vaccinia.
* 15 per million vaccinated experience serious complications.
* 1-2 people per million will die from vaccine.
* Most Americans under 30 haven't been vaccinated.
* 1 case is considered a public health emergency.
Source: CDC
In the last century alone, smallpox claimed the lives of 500 million people.
If he's been agonizing over going through with this, I wonder how much of a threat it is?
D
Being 38 - I've already had a the vaccine, but I'd probably need a booster if there were to be a problem. In the side bar of the article there were some interesting stats.
* The last natural smallpox case was in Somalia in 1977.
* Vaccine effective if given within 4 days of exposure.
* Vaccine does not contain the smallpox virus.
* Vaccine is made from a virus called vaccinia.
* 15 per million vaccinated experience serious complications.
* 1-2 people per million will die from vaccine.
* Most Americans under 30 haven't been vaccinated.
* 1 case is considered a public health emergency.
Source: CDC
In the last century alone, smallpox claimed the lives of 500 million people.
If he's been agonizing over going through with this, I wonder how much of a threat it is?
D