XPost: rec.arts.sf.science, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 23/04/25 12:15, Mike Van Pelt wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Lynn McGuire   wrote:   
   >> On 3/8/2025 12:56 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:   
   >>> Nobody gets vaccinated against smallpox any more, since the   
   >>> virus is extinct.  In the wild.  I grimly await some   
   >>> (long string of weapons-grade expletives) to break that   
   >>> out of the freezer and inflict it on the world again.   
   >>   
   >> My former USMC son got the smallpox vaccination from a Navy Corpsman   
   >> before his second trip to Iraq in 2007.  All 1,500+ men in the Marine   
   >> Battalion got the smallpox vaccination.   
   >   
   > Yeah, there was some fear that someone in Iraq may have been   
   > harboring a few vials of v. major in a freezer somewhere.   
   > Not sure that was a reasonable fear, though.  That's on the   
   > list of "non nuclear things you could do that might very well   
   > get you glassed simultaneously by everyone who has nukes" list.   
   >   
      
   My memory is a bit cloudy on this but weren't there serious health   
   issues for a significant percentage of the US military in Iraq because   
   of an excess of compulsory vaccinations?   
      
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