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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (3194)	10/25/2001 2:14:23 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14610

Virtually everyone over the age of 35 in the U.S. and most of the Western world is vaccinated against smallpox. I know someone who came to this country as a child in 1970 and wasn't allowed to go to school until she got the smallpox vaccine. But in 1972, they discontinued the vaccine. There were side effects, and about a one in a million chance of dying from the vaccine, and with smallpox nearly eradicated then, the vaccine was killing more people than it was saving. Interesting article in the WSJ yesterday about the guy who supervised the team that eradicated it, and how the government contacted him just after 9/11 to consult about containing a smallpox outbreak now.