Mayo clinic material on smallpox in the Siga link:
About Smallpox 1
Smallpox is a contagious, disfiguring and often deadly disease that has affected humans for thousands of years. Naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1980, the result of an unprecedented global immunization campaign. Samples of smallpox virus have been kept for research purposes. This has led to concerns that smallpox could someday be used as a biological warfare agent. A vaccine can prevent smallpox, but the risk of the current vaccine’s side effects is too high to justify routine vaccination for people at low risk of exposure to the smallpox virus.
( if vaccine can only be used for people at high risk of exposure - who are these people?)
Maybe to manufacture a BIG POX scare you need to get the pox making stuff out there!
compare and contrast the views of the authors of Virus Mania
https://www.collectionbooks.net/pdf/virus-mania
Virus Mania:
page 39
“The number of inconsistencies that arise from the theory of death-bringing viruses is illustrated by the smallpox epidemic, which even today people like to draw upon to stir up epidemic panic. 193 But was smallpox really a viral epidemic that was successfully overpowered by vaccines? “Medical historians doubt this,“ writes journalist Neil Miller in his book “Vaccines: Are They Really Safe & Effective?” “Not only were there no vaccines for scarlet fever or the Black Plague, and these diseases disappeared all the same.” 194
For example, in England, prior to the introduction of mandatory vaccinations in 1953, there were two smallpox deaths per 10,000 inhabitants per year. But at the beginning of the 1870s, nearly 20 years after the introduction of mandatory vaccinations, which had led to a 98 percent vaccination rate, 195 England suffered 10 smallpox deaths per 10,000 inhabitants annually; five times as many as before. “The smallpox epidemic reached its peak after vaccinations had been introduced,“ summarizes William Farr, who was responsible for compiling statistics in London. 196
…From an orthodox view, the picture on the Philippines was no less contradictory: the islands experienced their worst smallpox epidemic at the beginning of the 20th century, even though the vaccination rate was at almost 100 percent. 197 And in 1928, a paper was finally published in the British Medical Journal that disclosed that the risk of dying from smallpox was five times higher for those who had been vaccinated than for those who had not. 198
In Germany statistics of smallpox mortalities have been collected since 1816. There were around 6,000 smallpox deaths per year until the end of the 1860s. In the years 18701871, the number of victims suddenly jumped 14-fold to nearly 85,000 deaths.
What had happened? The Franco-Prussian War was raging, and French prisoners of
war were held in German camp under the most miserable conditions with extremely bad nutrition. As a result, the number of smallpox cases in the camps increased exponentially, even though all French and German soldiers had been vaccinated against smallpox. Germans (themselves suffering from the war) were likewise affected by the smallpox, although some of them had also been vaccinated.
When the camps were dissolved directly after the war, the number of smallpox deaths also markedly declined. Three years later, in 1874, there were only 3,345 smallpox deaths in Germany per year. Prevailing medicine says that this reduction was due to the Reichsimpfgesetz, a law that among other things stipulated that a child had to be vaccinated “before the end of the calendar year following his year of birth.” But in fact, this law first came into effect in 1875, when the smallpox scare was long past. ” At that time there must have been Improvements in hygiene, technology, and civilization, which led to the decline in diseases and deaths,” says physician Gerhard Buchwald. 199
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