The president has made it clear that he was obtaining the smallpox vaccine in his position as commander-in-chief.
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
I have read that smallpox is not very communicable at all, and that conditions in which it's spread are usually classified as prolonged, intense contact with an infected individual. Is that true?
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
This will bolster our emergency smallpox stockpile, provide an extra layer of protection for all Americans in the event of a smallpox outbreak and strengthen our safety net in the event of a biological attack,
The reason this vaccination campaign was undertaken was spurious. It was a mirage, there was no threat of smallpox from Iraq. And that remains a powerfully sad coda to this whole episode.
There's a lot of people who should not be vaccinated with smallpox vaccine.
While there's concern, we do not have any concern that a smallpox attack is imminent.