eek. 1 billion out of 6.5 billion? I'm sure there probably still several billion people immunized (I was born within 5 years of the cessation of routine immunization and both my parents are immunized, as are my grandparents... in theory I probably should not have been living with them).
Canada is indeed working on getting enough doses and I was under the impression they were close to that goal. Unless something has changed in 3 years though, that supply is being stored in France where the vaccine is produced since Canada presently (as of 2002) does not have the facilities to produce the smallpox vaccine or store it for any length of time. I hope someone has changed this practice/remedied this situation because I don't doubt France would use the stock to vaccinate its own populace before turning it over to us. I mean, wouldn't you try to protect your own people first?
Scary, but with luck we'll never have to find out.
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I'm sure there probably still several billion people immunized (I was born within 5 years of the cessation of routine immunization and both my parents are immunized, as are my grandparents... in theory I probably should not have been living with them).
Canada is indeed working on getting enough doses and I was under the impression they were close to that goal. Unless something has changed in 3 years though, that supply is being stored in France where the vaccine is produced since Canada presently (as of 2002) does not have the facilities to produce the smallpox vaccine or store it for any length of time. I hope someone has changed this practice/remedied this situation because I don't doubt France would use the stock to vaccinate its own populace before turning it over to us. I mean, wouldn't you try to protect your own people first?
Scary, but with luck we'll never have to find out.