Word: smallpox
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...swept away all those confusing new companies I never bothered to understand in the first place, with their energy trading and e-tailing and telling people they've got mail. None of the news seemed at all fresh this year: Attacking Iraq? Jimmy Carter getting a peace prize? Smallpox vaccinations? Droughts plaguing Western farmers? Liza Minnelli getting married? Axis of evil? Airline bankruptcies? Ozzy Osbourne? It's like CNN was replaced by CNN Classic. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're rerunning old infrared shots of Baghdad. They've got to do something to offset Daryn Kagan's insane...
...irony is that most Americans--2 out of 3, according to a Robert Wood Johnson survey--seem to be willing to put their health at risk to protect themselves against a disease that is entirely theoretical. There hasn't been an outbreak of smallpox for 25 years, thanks in large part to Dr. D. A. Henderson, who ran the World Health Organization's smallpox-eradication program and who has been, for the past year, the Administration's chief smallpox adviser. Henderson believes a smallpox outbreak in the U.S. would actually be "very controllable." The strategy he used in the 1960s...
President Bush has finally revealed his plans for protecting the nation against the threat of a smallpox attack, starting with vaccinations for the military, emergency medical personnel, and the Commander in Chief, but it's still not clear what the rest of us are supposed to do. Although the President is not recommending vaccinations for the general public (or his family) at this point, the Administration is known to be stockpiling enough vaccine to begin offering it to every man, woman and child by 2004. These vaccinations will be voluntary, which means we have to decide for ourselves whether...
...tricky issue because this particular vaccine is one of medicine's most dangerous. It doesn't contain the smallpox virus, but it does use a live version of a related one, called vaccinia, that can make you sick and, in rare instances, kill you. Most people just get a blister at the injection site and maybe some swelling of the arm. Others will feel tired or develop a low-grade fever; about a third will feel ill enough to miss work or school. Out of 1 million people, between 15 and 60 will develop serious complications, including encephalitis (swelling...
...particularly vulnerable. So is anyone whose immune system is compromised--by HIV, cancer, immune disorders or immunosuppressive drugs. People who have ever had eczema, or who live with someone who does, risk widespread skin infections and should avoid the vaccine, unless they know they've been exposed to smallpox. All told, 60 million Americans would probably be well advised to take a pass...