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>Various vaccines are no longer recommended because of the virtually nonexistent risk. Such as?

• Drybones 5y ago
  smallpox
  • CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
    Smallpox has been eradicated, that's not even virtually nonexistent. Only risk I see is biological warfare, but why do that with a virus we have a vaccine for?
    • mschuster91 5y ago
      There are multiple other scenarios where the virus could become released into the wild again: infection by clearing up old storage sites, a laboratory accident, or some terrorist spending 100k US$. And all of these have happened (although the latter was "just" horse pox). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication
• pabs3 5y ago
  From elsewhere in the thread: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-vaccine-can-cause-polio https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-...
  • CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
    The other type of polio vaccine is still recommended (and even mandatory in many countries) so there is nothing to be worried about if you take all the recommended vaccines.
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