1.   Another is that the risks of mass vaccination could outweigh any benefits, particularly if no smallpox case ever appears.

2.   Each hospital would determine which workers to vaccinate and to train to care for smallpox cases, the panel said.

3.   Even doctors who have seen smallpox cases have been wrong.

4.   If a smallpox case does occur, federal plans call for vaccinating anyone around the person, along with family members and laboratory technicians dealing with the specimen.

5.   Smallpox cases, for now, are seen only in medical textbooks.

6.   Some believe that the Horn of Africa region would be considered, as the last smallpox case was recorded in Somalia.

7.   They got out maps and radioed other missionaries in the area, asking them to get runners to every village to identify smallpox cases and report back.

8.   Meantime, they are deciding whether to offer the vaccine to the public in the absence of any smallpox cases.