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In addition to technical skills, team leaders look for individuals who will work well together. So that members can communicate without translators, they must speak English. Nuclear inspectors with the IAEA learn on the job at headquarters in Vienna; novices are paired with experienced inspectors once in the field. UNMOVIC...
Of course, none of this proves Saddam does not have the smallpox virus--and there's some evidence he does. Eight of 69 Iraqi POWs screened during the Gulf War were immune to smallpox. Since the vaccine works for only four to five years, this suggests they had been inoculated...
Spurred on by the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. now has sufficient vaccine to inoculate some 160 million people (out of a population of 280 million)--but only by diluting some existing doses fivefold, which would only happen in an emergency. Another 209 million doses are on order. President Bush...
Because the vaccine is made up of the live smallpox virus, it can be extremely dangerous to people whose bodies are not capable of fighting off disease. As many as 60 million Americans with compromised immune systems will not receive the vaccine. People with AIDS, HIV, cancer, who have had...
The vaccine is not believed to last more than 5 or 10 years, so if you were given a vaccination in 1965, you're no longer protected against the virus. There is good news for those who've previously been vaccinated: If you didn't experience an adverse reaction to...