Vaccinations And Bio War

[Lancer]

I hear you there. Yet they claim to know everything, amazing huh?

[SlowwHand]

There's a quote that cycles through occasionally following posts.

"I'm not young enough to know everything."

I used to be smart. I grew out of it.

[Midshipman]

I was just wondering. I didn't refuse any of the shots, but we do have people who did. Actually, the vaccination was more a pain in the arm than anything

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Lancer
Is there anywhere that a civilian can get small pox vaccine?

the person who has the least to fear, fears the most.

[Midshipman]

Originally posted by Lancer
Is there anywhere that a civilian can get small pox vaccine?

Yeah, come and lick my arm

[Sandman]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Pardon me?


"Historically, variola major has an overall fatality rate of about 30%; however, flat and hemorrhagic smallpox usually are fatal."

Flat and hemorrhagic smallpox are caused by the same virus as standard smallpox, it's just acting in a different way. The 30% figure includes those unfortunate to contract the highly lethal manifestations of the virus. Therefore it's impossible for the terrorists to 'develop' the most lethal forms.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Sandman

Flat and hemorrhagic smallpox are caused by the same virus as standard smallpox, it's just acting in a different way. The 30% figure includes those unfortunate to contract the highly lethal manifestations of the virus. Therefore it's impossible for the terrorists to 'develop' the most lethal forms.

Thats a bit of an assumption since no one knows why the difference in disease manifestations occured. Smallpox was eradicated before it was possible to track viral clades by genetic analysis. We have no way of knowing whether the different manifestations of the disease were caused by changes to the virus (mutation or expression) or by host factors. If flat and hemorrhagic smallpox were a result of virus variation rather than host factors then it would be possible to increase its lethality.