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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UnSafe" data-source="post: 1964072" data-attributes="member: 100">The US Military has been vaccinating against Smallpox for decades. It's a 10 year vaccination and that's a good thing, since it causes painful reactions in many shoulders. A continuing concern is that several of the former Soviet satellite countries, South Africa, France, N. Korea, China and Iran may have kept frozen Smallpox virus. Hopefully not true, but if ever weaponized and released there could be as much as a 40+% death rate in endemic areas. It has about a 7-10 day lag between contact and symptoms, but infected persons are capable of transmitting the virus to others for 2-3 days prior to  getting obviously sick. It was a great (Scary) model to work on for infectious disease based Bio Warfare defence planning at the Air Force's Global Medicine course down at Brooks AFB.</blockquote>