An obvious response is that smallpox vaccine is not flu vaccine, and another is that a vaccine causing some of the symptoms of the disease it treats is neither unusual nor surprising, but what makes this specific doltishness worse is that the smallpox vaccine was made from cowpox, not smallpox. It is a very old and primitive vaccine, essentially pus from a cowpox-infected cow, heavily watered down, and luckily it gives humans resistance to smallpox. They did stop giving it after smallpox seemed to disappear, because then the risk of the vaccine exceeded the risk of smallpox. But no way did she get smallpox from it.
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- Barry SCHWARTZ (Barijo ŜVARC) (
chemoelectric) wrote,
Barry SCHWARTZ (Barijo ŜVARC)
chemoelectric
Foolishness on the Montel Williams radio show
An obvious response is that smallpox vaccine is not flu vaccine, and another is that a vaccine causing some of the symptoms of the disease it treats is neither unusual nor surprising, but what makes this specific doltishness worse is that the smallpox vaccine was made from cowpox, not smallpox. It is a very old and primitive vaccine, essentially pus from a cowpox-infected cow, heavily watered down, and luckily it gives humans resistance to smallpox. They did stop giving it after smallpox seemed to disappear, because then the risk of the vaccine exceeded the risk of smallpox. But no way did she get smallpox from it.
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