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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I read that yesterday was he 32nd anniversary of the last case of naturally acquired smallpox. Some backwater in the horn of Africa.
That awful disease had been around for 10,000 years and killed hundreds of millions of people. It was wiped out in a matter of decades after they develop the vaccine. But some people don't think they work. Or even better, are designed to kill us.
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I'm not speaking out against vaccines by any means... but I don't think the contraversy is unwarranted. We are talking about mass immunization of entire populations for a disease that would likely infect less than 1% of the total population... of which, only a small percentage would die. The vaccine seems rushed which also scares people. Just because one vaccine is proven effective over 50 years, does not mean every other vaccine developed afterwards will also be harmless. There is evidence that certain vaccines can harm people several years after the fact (see Gulf War Syndrome which many scientists have linked to anthrax vaccines which were developed in haste and weren't properly tested).