Bush approves smallpox vaccinations for healthcare workers...

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Coming to an arm near you, a smallpox poke to protect emergency healthcare workers from a future bioterrorism attack.

President Bush is preparing the order to inoculate one million Americans for smallpox in response to a possible future bioterrorism attack. The initial stage of the decision would see 500,000 military personnel and 510,000 civilian medical workers receive the jab. A secondary phase would see thousands of additional healthcare workers receive the jab.

Are you concerned about possible dangers inherent with the vaccine? If asked, will you accept or reject the innoculation?

According to the stories published today, Los Angeles County has already ordered 20,000 doses.

I had two vaccines. One at age 6 and another at age 18. Strickly localized reaction in most cases. Nothing to it. Now when I was age 18 I was also immunized against TYPHOID FEVER. Back then it was manditory for health care students. I would think twice about having that again. It made me very ill when I was young and healthy. I fear what it would do to some one who has health problems. My son who is now 32 was one of the last kids to get small pox vaccine. He got a body wide rash and a fever which eventually passed. That is a sever and unusual reaction but still there was no permanent damage. Unless it has something to do with how obnoxious he can be sometimes now that he is grown up.

Yes, Vegas, it's the thing that left all the holes in your arm! I have my sleeved rolled up. I'd also like my family to get it. You can never be too safe.

Kristy

Originally posted by emily_mom

Yes, Vegas, it's the thing that left all the holes in your arm! I have my sleeved rolled up. I'd also like my family to get it. You can never be too safe.

Kristy

Okay, then I want it on my butt this time so it will look like a cute little pucker kiss. :D

Specializes in LDRP; Education.

I hate any and all shots. I'd only get it if it was required for a job or if I truly, truly, truly, was at risk.

Smallpox is a scary disease, indeed.

Well guess what, today My emergency department was offered to request the vaccine. There was a sheet to sign if interested and i struggled at first with the 1% mortality attached to it. I mean, i'm young and healthy, and the fact is that once vaccinated, i'm only 95% covered! 1000, out of every 1million FIRST TIME VACCINEES experience serious reactions (guess what new nurses, that's us) and the worst part is if your not careful you can inadvertantly inoculate your family! Wow what consequences! I'm doing it anyway!! ANd GOOD for all of you that WOULD IF OFFERED! As nurses we are educators, please everyone educate your self, good info at this site, just click away!

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/facts.asp#safetyhttp://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/facts.asp#safety

Specializes in ICU/CCU (PCCN); Heme/Onc/BMT.

My sleaves are rolled up!

I recieved the small pox vaccine when I was a kid. . .

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P. S. ack. . . .drool. . . arrggg. . . . sthinking sslowly. . . . .

Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Med-Surg.

The latest I have heard is that immunity lasts only 10 years, and this is one of the arguments for having it done again as an adult. Whether this is ACTUALLY true, however, I have no idea and nobody else seems to know either.

Does anyone have better data than this? Feel free to post it.

Secondly, if there is a 1% mortality rate from this vaccine, and there are 2.7 million nurses in this country, then we could expect 27 THOUSAND nurses to die if we all took the vaccine. Surely we can come up with a more realistic number than 1%, people.

Again, Does anyone have better data than this? Feel free to post it.

No wonder people are reluctant, scared, etc. How about some accurate information, for starters!

Eli Lilly & Company developed thimerosal, the vaccine preservative that contains approximately 50% mercury. In recent decades, scientists have shown that mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin. No surprise then that the high levels of mercury detected in many young children in America have been directly linked to permanent neurological damage, including autism.

Mercury is a biohazard.. now why is it in vacines?

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