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Smallpox Vaccinations

What Parents Need to Know

By Heather V. Long

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  • Are using steroid drops in their eyes. (These people should wait until they are no longer using the medication to get the vaccine.)

    What Does This All Mean?
    There are complications that can be serious, but the benefits of the vaccine at least for the first response teams outweigh some of those concerns. The administration of the vaccine and care for the site of the vaccine is done by health care professionals, generally already immunized themselves to lower the risks.

    Keeping the vaccination site bandaged and covered by a long-sleeve shirt for 14 days after the vaccination will also be standard. Children under the age of 18 will not be administered the vaccine, so the concerns parents share for their children are shared with the government. Knowledge is the best weapon in our arsenal to protect our children and ourselves.

    "In the era when smallpox vaccinations were given to everyone from infancy to adulthood, having an otherwise healthy child die unexpectedly from a disease wasn't that uncommon," says Kock. "Parents accepted the risk, because the risk of smallpox vaccine was much lower than the risk of catching smallpox. That isn't the case now. I am not prepared to risk my children's lives as it stands right now to prepare for an event that may never happen."


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