There is a new way to make smallpox vaccine that is fast and cheap.
It should have been obvious to even casual observers that the smallpox vaccine was a lifesaver.
The smallpox vaccine literally was the difference between life and death back in the early 1900s.
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"We will have enough does to ensure that every American will have a smallpox vaccine available, " Thompson said.
Anyway, comparing this to the smallpox vaccine is more than slightly ridiculous.
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People were rightly terrified of the ineffective and very dangerous smallpox vaccine.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1905), the Supreme Court held unanimously that a state government could impose a fine against someone who refused to take a smallpox vaccine.
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In the 108th Congress, he sponsored legislation providing benefits to emergency responders who are injured by the smallpox vaccine, as well legislation to limit unsolicited e-mail, or spam.
Although Warwick winces at the comparison, Boulos likens him to a latter-day Edward Jenner, who injected himself with cowpox in 1776 to further his research into a smallpox vaccine.
The World Health Organisation holds emergency stocks of smallpox vaccine in the Netherlands, but it is far from clear that there is enough to treat the victims of a major outbreak in Europe.
But the vaccinia-based Smallpox vaccine had been used previously to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people worldwide for generations and eliminated the scourge of Smallpox with very few side effects and very few fatalities.
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The debate over the smallpox vaccine is further complicated by claims from the US that a vaccine against the Lister strain, such as the one ordered by the UK government, might not be the best option.
It's not the same for the US. Today we have heard, very clearly from President Bush, there's this huge boost in his budget for measures to fight bioterrorism and a smallpox vaccine dose for every citizen.
According to Ken Alibek, a Russian defector who was deputy director of Vector's parent organization, Biopreparat, the U.S. has only 7 million doses of smallpox vaccine, putting major U.S. cities at the mercy of any large-scale terrorist attack.
Jamie Murphy in What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization and Eleanor McBean in The Poisoned Needle recount many case histories of children and adults maimed and killed by the smallpox vaccine, including many gruesome old photographs.
There had never been epidemics of smallpox before the vaccine, but many outbreaks swept across Europe in the nineteenth century.
And a debate is raging as to whether or not to inoculate the public against smallpox or whether the vaccine would prove effective against genetically engineered strains of the virus.
In people with defective immune systems, the normally mild infection can be severe, so eradicating smallpox not only saved people from smallpox but from needing the vaccine (it is still used in specialized settings such as the military).
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While the Lister vaccine has proved highly effective at eradicating naturally-occurring smallpox infections across the world, there is the suggestion that it might not work as well against so-called "battlefield strains" of the disease.
Twenty years after the global outbreak of AIDS, no one has developed an effective vaccine against the HIV virus, a far more cunning foe than polio, smallpox or measles.
The vaccine was manufactured in cows nearly 50 years ago on a site that had been producing smallpox vaccines since 1897.
The road to eradication of smallpox started more than 200 years ago when scientist Edward Jenner made a discovery which led to the development of a vaccine.
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