Polio 'easy' to make; U.S. study created virus from scratch
IAN MACLEOD
CanWest News Service
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Bioterrorists using commercially available technology and materials could, with relative ease, make a synthesized version of the polio virus, the Canadian military has warned.
"There are concerns that terrorists can now create viruses," says a military intelligence assessment obtained by Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin through the Access to Information Act.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/soundoff/story.html?id=bb57b7fb-0548-4917-9f4a-91b601be814c
Like our generation doesn't already have to worry about those polio vaccines coming back to bite us in the bum!
Paralytic Polio Linked To Vaccinations
http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/vaccine/polio.html
Although most young parents today didn't live through the polio era, there is an inherited fear that lingers on -- a fear that is reinforced by health officials who use the threat of the resurgence of infectious diseases like polio to elicit compliance with mass vaccination programs. Statements like "these diseases are just a plane ride away" conjure images of predatory pathogens invading from more primitive corners of the world.
http://64.41.99.118/vran/vaccines/polio/vaccine_pol.htm