Word: colorados
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...leaves a greater number of victims with permanent mental damage from spread of the cowpox virus to the brain. Yet the U.S. has had no death from smallpox itself since 1949 and not one case of the disease since 1954. What the country now needs, argues the University of Colorado's Dr. C. Henry Kempe, is protection not against smallpox but against vaccination...
...Colorado's Kempe would go much farther. He would totally abolish routine vaccination of children, and of all stay-at-home Americans except those engaged in health services that might bring them into contact with an accidentally imported case of the disease. He would, however, continue to vaccinate young men entering the armed forces and maintain the presently required vaccination for any traveler to areas where smallpox is still rife...