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...Given the not-so-good news, the U.S. government has decided now might be a good time to look into vaccinating the entire nation against smallpox - a disease that was officially eradicated in 1977. It?s no small task: Health officials estimate we now have about 15 million doses of the vaccine, and there are plans afoot to purchase another 300 million. The government could also dilute existing doses just enough to inoculate everyone - without, we can only assume, compromising the immunizing threshold of the vaccine. The vaccine, drawn from active smallpox cultures, can also slow or stop the advance...
...Lowdown on Smallpox...
...While the U.S. public now knows more about anthrax than it ever wanted to know, information about smallpox is less ubiquitous. Looking for answers, TIME.com turned to Dr. Lee Harrison, a medical epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, also works with the Biomedical Security Institute, a joint venture of the University of Pittsburgh?s Graduate School of Public Health and Carnegie Mellon University...
...TIME.com: What is smallpox...
...Harrison: Smallpox is a virus. It?s a naturally occurring disease that?s transmitted from person to person via "droplet nuclei," or saliva, somewhat analogous to chicken pox. It first evolved long, long ago and eventually became a major pathogen for humans...