ObQuibble: the smallpox vaccine helps against monkeypox, but does not immunize you--it's only got something like 85% effectiveness.
I understand the distrusting reaction, but I do not think you need to be operating with a bias to conclude that, when 40 people per million have life-threatening reactions and you don't need to put them at risk of that to get rid of the specific disease you're targeting, perhaps you should not put them at risk. (Operating with the narrow focus on a goal often found in bureaucracy, yes. That's different, dammit.)
In an ideal world, where you could care for everyone who had a bad reaction (given the nearly 40 million people who had HIV in 2004, I do not even want to think about the possible complications), and where vaccination would cover every recombinant and resistant strain that could be developed, I can see the value of immunization against a disease that you can successfully be innoculated against after exposure.
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I understand the distrusting reaction, but I do not think you need to be operating with a bias to conclude that, when 40 people per million have life-threatening reactions and you don't need to put them at risk of that to get rid of the specific disease you're targeting, perhaps you should not put them at risk. (Operating with the narrow focus on a goal often found in bureaucracy, yes. That's different, dammit.)
In an ideal world, where you could care for everyone who had a bad reaction (given the nearly 40 million people who had HIV in 2004, I do not even want to think about the possible complications), and where vaccination would cover every recombinant and resistant strain that could be developed, I can see the value of immunization against a disease that you can successfully be innoculated against after exposure.
Right now, not so much.