I'm going pretty much off the CDC's section on smallpox (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/index.asp). The American Academy of Pediatrics also has a page (http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;110/4/841) on it. Health Canada has a Q&A (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ep-mu/smallpox_e.html) and an outline of emergency response (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/issues/smallpox_e.html) on their page, but not much else; to be honest, teh CDC seems to have more information (form example, specifying the four different types and their mortality rates).
I believe the US currently has enough vaccine to provide post-exposure innoculation to the entire population--if you get the vaccine within three days after exposure, you can develop an immunity from it before the damn stuff finishes incubating, and even four to seven days after exposure it still helps. Health Canada's page says they're working on adding ten million doses to their supply, but doesn't give a solid record of how close they are to it; they started working on that in 2003.
(Apologies on the earlier figures, I was off by a decimal point. Atopic dermatitis affects 15% of the population (off the AAP page), world population is 6446 million, minus the 40 for HIV gives you 6406, times 0.15 gives you 960.9, round down because I'm an optimist, add the 40 back in...
Based off HIV and atopic dermatitis alone, that's a billion people who shouldn't be living with someone who's been vaccinated against smallpox. My bad.)
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I believe the US currently has enough vaccine to provide post-exposure innoculation to the entire population--if you get the vaccine within three days after exposure, you can develop an immunity from it before the damn stuff finishes incubating, and even four to seven days after exposure it still helps. Health Canada's page says they're working on adding ten million doses to their supply, but doesn't give a solid record of how close they are to it; they started working on that in 2003.
(Apologies on the earlier figures, I was off by a decimal point. Atopic dermatitis affects 15% of the population (off the AAP page), world population is 6446 million, minus the 40 for HIV gives you 6406, times 0.15 gives you 960.9, round down because I'm an optimist, add the 40 back in...
Based off HIV and atopic dermatitis alone, that's a billion people who shouldn't be living with someone who's been vaccinated against smallpox. My bad.)