UPI.com 07/01/2010 A woman who had sex with a member of the U.S. military vaccinated against smallpox subsequently contracted a related virus, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released Thursday said despite the patient’s exposure history, sex with a person vaccinated against smallpox, and clinical presentation, genital lesions, the diagnosis of vaccinia virus was not initially considered by the patient’s doctor. “Healthcare providers caring for U.S. military personnel or their contacts should consider vaccinia virus infection [...]

Scotsman 07/02/2010 THERE were four major problems at the heart of what happened with the swine flu episode. First, the world was unnecessarily frightened witless by claims made by experts that it could killed between two and 7.5 million people, 65,000 in London. This caused panic among the public for what in the end was a mild case of flu. People were made to expect something akin to the crisis of 1918 which killed millions when in reality it was less than normal seasonal flu. [...]