A mass campaign to vaccinate Americans against smallpox might result in 200 to 300 deaths and make several thousand people severely ill -- yet could save thousands of lives in the event of a bioterrorist attack with the virus, according to research presented yesterday at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in Baltimore.
As a doc says,
For a mass vaccination campaign to succeed, Americans would have to accept "some numbers of deaths and several thousand illnesses. Today's U.S. population is not accustomed to that level of side effects and deaths from a vaccine."
You can't reduce risk to nothing, but I don't think the American people will ever be able to believe that.
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