CDC to Destroy Oldest Smallpox Vaccine

March 1, 2008 By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- The government announced Friday that it has said goodbye to one of the world's greatest lifesavers - the oldest smallpox vaccine. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month made arrangements to dispose of the last of its 12 million doses of Dryvax, and notified other health departments and the military to do the same by Feb. 29.

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www.lamegame.name]www.lamegame.name[/url] author Daniel Vincent Kelley says:

It seems this is long over due, there having been no small pox observed since 1980, it's a wonder why the adults in 2003 were being 'vaccinated' against it in any case...

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Because there are (or were) smallpox samples in the former Soviet Union which could fall into the wrong hands. And because the smallpox virus could be recreated from its published genetic code even if every last smallpox virus was destroyed.
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