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One of the last big outbreaks of smallpox occurred in Iran and Iraq in 1972. Some cases were the dreaded "black pox" or hemoraggic smallpox which is almost 100% fatal. If anyone in Iran or Iraq collected and maintained samples of that smallpox, it would make an excellent biological weapon.

Extreme Smallpox
Some of the victims develop an extreme form of smallpox, often called "black pox". As portrayed by Preston:
"Doctors separate black pox into two forms -- flat smallpox and hemorrhagic smallpox. In a case of flat smallpox, the skin remains smooth and doesn't pustulate, but it darkens until it looks charred, and it can slip off the body in sheets. In hemorrhagic smallpox, black, unclotted blood oozes or runs from the mouth and other body orifices. Black pox is close to a hundred percent fatal. If any sign of it appears in the body, the victim will almost certainly die. In the bloody cases, the virus destroys the linings of the throat. The stomach, the intestines, the rectum, and the vagina, and these membranes disintegrate. Fatal smallpox can destroy the body's entire skin -- both the exterior skin and the interior skin that lines the passages of the body."

After 1977 some supplies of smallpox were held at heavily guarded laboratories in both the former Soviet Union and the US. However, it has long been suspected that samples have been smuggled out and have fallen into the hands of international terrorists.

http://cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm
Interesting as well

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/664859/posts FReeper post #28..

"In the first place the ONLY host for Smallpox is human beings. Smallpox was never eradicated, and there are carriers "out there" now, who even without any terrorist activity will eventually cause another outbreak of Smallpox, - it's inevitable.

The last outbreak in Eastern Europe just a few years ago (AFTER it had been declared eradicated) was in a man who had recently been re-vaccinated for Smallpox. Within weeks, everyone in the country had contracted the illness, and this is a country that routinely vaccinates for Smallpox and most people had been vaccinated at least 10 times. QUARANTINE and NOT VACCINE is what contained the disease and saved the people.

QUARANTINE is the best way to prevent getting the disease, unless you know of some way to get cowpox scrapings (which would confer immunity), but if you do you're one up on those of us who've been investigating this for months now.

The important things to remember are that humans are THE ONLY host for Smallpox, ergo in never was eradicated, since it has resurfaced in at least two places that we know of in the last few years.

Another thing to remember, is that the FEAR of this dis-ease is at least as dangerous as the disease itself....28 posted on 04/13/2002 4:46:53 AM PDT by Jessebelle

Don't know where Boortz gets his info..