Vaccines ... smallpox?..?

Question

If we no longer get vaccines for smallpox today for kid's like me who have never got vaccine for it...over 15 million people today haven't got vaccines for smallpox. meaning if this disease was to come back again to around the world. What would those 15 million people do? are they going to have a vaccine again soon for smallpox?...They havent found a cure for people who get smallpox.. just that vaccine they made in the past. but what would we do today. that's what im curious about....

Answer 1

First of all the ONLY smallpox virus on the Planet is now confined to research laboratories. Small pox has been eradicated thanks to the vaccination programs, so no need to vaccinate anymore. The reason I know this because 30+ years ago we had one person who worked in a Laboratory get smallpox and all those who were going on Holiday out of the Country had to be vaccinated, so I have been vaccinated against small pox along with my Sister. Otherwise we could not go on Holiday and we would loose our money. I think I read that some small pox virus got lost in the mail in the USA but they found it still in tact. Now here is the interesting fact. The small pox vaccine was a double live vaccine. First you had the skin on your arm scraped and a small amount of live vaccine placed on the open wound. Then you went away and waited for seven days. If you had a serious skin reaction to the scrape, you were already immune. If nothing happened you had to have the full vaccine, injection. So two sisters, genetically similar, my arm came up like a massive boil with a seriously thick crust, so I was already immune, while my Sister failed to react, so she had to have the injection. My holiday pictures show the large encrusted lump. Should the virus be stolen and used as a weapon, released, I doubt their would be 'enough' virus, let alone it being able to be sustained in the global warming climate to do much if any harm. Therefore you would probably need to contaminate people via injection and I cannot see several thousand people being willingly injected to be used as weapons. Likewise I doubt we have enough live virus to inject several thousand people. Small Pox is dead in the water and now they only keep it as a artifact to study.

Answer 2

The vaccine against smallpox is made out of purified and attenuated cowpox (vaccinia) virus. that's derived from calf lymph and isn't based on there being any unquestionably smallpox virus obtainable as none is interior the vaccine. Smallpox has been eradicated interior the wild international extensive because of the fact vaccination grow to be so effectual. There are samples of the virus stored interior the usa and Russia in properly controlled laboratories. inspite of the shown fact that, that's continually obtainable that some rogue usa or team has get entry to to smallpox virus and could probable use it in a organic and organic attack. We subsequently could save a inventory of vaccine against it and to be certain that troops being deployed into circumstances the place organic and organic weapons could be used are surely secure.

Answer 3

As a nurse, I know that there is a supply of smallpox vaccine, and if there becomes an outbreak, People will get vaccinated against it.
There are government plans about what to do during an outbreak. That's all I know.

Answer 4

If it got released today than there would be a huge outbreak and many, many people would die, but also people would start being vaccinated for it again. I don't believe there is a cure for it since it's a virus, it's similar in the line to chicken pox and anthrax (also called cow pox) and there are no cures for those.

Answer 5

They have vaccines stockpiles and they could ramp up manufacturing rather quickly. It would not be a big problem, more scary than an actual threat.

Answer 6

go to mexico...they give smallpox vaccines