Munich (AP) — when the precautionary safeguards against a possible terrorist attack with smallpox started Bayern with the training of doctors and assistants. On Wednesday, a group was trained for the first time by around 200 doctors in the Bavarian Landesärztekammer in Munich. Smallpox apply for 23 years as eradicated worldwide. Health professionals and professionals should be made therefore familiar with the disease, vaccination and their side effects, explained the head of unit for hygiene and infection protection in the Bavarian Health Ministry, Hans Christoph Huber. With the training, which are voluntary, among other things the organisational should conditions, to vaccinate the Bavarian population in an emergency to 500 vaccination centres. Doctors have to decide in such cases, inter alia, who cannot be vaccinated or who exactly the toxicity risk was too high. The adverse reactions include allergies and severe skin disease. Also Gehirnentzündungen are possible, which can lead to death in severe cases. The interest in the training is great, said Huber. “It is interesting for every doctor, which potentially even comes with the vaccination against smallpox in contact.” According to Health Minister Eberhard sinner (CSU) of February about 55,000 workers five days would have to ensure when an outbreak of smallpox vaccination of 12 million inhabitants of Bavaria’s. A project team in the Ministry of consumer protection therefore currently creates alarm and response procedures for all areas of administration.