Why no more Small pox & TB vaccinations in the U.S.?

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Hello everyone,

I've been thinking about this question for a while as i am trying hard

to swim through the ocean of pro & con immunization info. Can anyone

tell me why U.S. stopped smallpox vaccination back in 1970's & never

implemented mandatory TB shots? I know that the governmnet said that

smallpox was officially eradicated and TB is not so much a threat &

that's why we no longer vaccinated against those two. If pharmaceutical

companies are after profits and the vaccines are big money makers,

wouldn't it make sense that they would lie to us and keep pushing

smallpox & TB(BCG)vaccines on us still? They add new vaccines but

removed a few older onse. I was still vaccinted against smallpox in

1977 and also with TB(BCG) which is still used routinely in Eastern

Europe. Those who were born in the U.S. same year(1977) were lucky not

to get those two vaccines, so it's not so bad here afterall.

Katarina

[Guest guest]

You know, that may be a good question. They like to say that you don't get

polio in the

wild in the US but " it's only a plane ride away. " So why not TB, which I think

parts of the

world still get? Wonder what gives?

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> Hello everyone,

> I've been thinking about this question for a while as i am trying hard

> to swim through the ocean of pro & con immunization info. Can anyone

> tell me why U.S. stopped smallpox vaccination back in 1970's & never

> implemented mandatory TB shots? I know that the governmnet said that

> smallpox was officially eradicated and TB is not so much a threat &

> that's why we no longer vaccinated against those two. If pharmaceutical

> companies are after profits and the vaccines are big money makers,

> wouldn't it make sense that they would lie to us and keep pushing

> smallpox & TB(BCG)vaccines on us still? They add new vaccines but

> removed a few older onse. I was still vaccinted against smallpox in

> 1977 and also with TB(BCG) which is still used routinely in Eastern

> Europe. Those who were born in the U.S. same year(1977) were lucky not

> to get those two vaccines, so it's not so bad here afterall.

>

> Katarina

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