"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Israeli Preparedness: Israel's Health Ministry is recommending voluntary pre-attack smallpox vaccination for the general public. They correctly point out the impossibility of vaccinating everyone within four days of an outbreak. They also note that the complication rate of their current vaccination program has been low:
Lev noted that 10,000 "first responders" have already been vaccinated, and they had fewer side effects from the immunization than anticipated, according to studies.