[anymouse]

Sabertooth - member since September 15th, 2001

Link is busted, so is Sabertooth's brain.

Small Pox bacteria limited to 2 small viles - 1 in CDC in Atlanta, 1 in Secure Mil lab in Russia. No credible threat.

[Sabertooth]

Hey I don't even care how long you've been a member...

Where have you been?

Sadaam Hussein's son-in-law defected in 1995 and claimed at the time that he had smallpox. UN weapons inspections proved this. Hussein even admitted it, and claimed he had destroyed the supplies, although it's believed he had other stockpiles.

Even 60 minutes reported last week that Hussein has smallpox bio weapons.

This is widely accepted by just about everyone.

For more on Hussein, take a look at this...

Sorry about the busted link. Here it is...

http://www.bergen.com/news/candy1200110207.htm

[Alas Babylon!]

Actually, on Fox News Sunday, Senator Frist, the only Senator who is a medical doctor, while being interviewed by Britt hume, admitted that OTHER states, besides the USA and Russia, have the smallpox virus. Britt tried to get him to say which states, but Frist said he was "uncomfortable" going into further details and didn't want to name them. He also said the US is on a crash program to manufacture smallpox vaccines. He said there are 2 million now, there will be 40 million within 8 months, and 300 million by 2004.

I think the threat is a possibility. Will it happen? I don't think so, but I certainly hope & pray not.

[Sabertooth]

"Small Pox bacteria limited to 2 small viles - 1 in CDC in Atlanta, 1 in Secure Mil lab in Russia. No credible threat."

For your perusal...

October 20, 2001

A Scramble to Counter
Any Threat of Smallpox

By MELODY PETERSEN and KEITH BRADSHER

"After announcing plans to stockpile 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine,
the government must now determine where it can quickly get so much...."

[Interesting Times]

Small Pox bacteria limited to 2 small viles - 1 in CDC in Atlanta, 1 in Secure Mil lab in Russia. No credible threat.

That's almost certainly not the case.

Here is some soothing bedtime reading.

[WyldKard]

Small Pox bacteria limited to 2 small viles - 1 in CDC in Atlanta, 1 in Secure Mil lab in Russia. No credible threat.

And if you believe that even the Soviets (infamous for making a mockery of every bio/chem weapons treaty we signed with them), at the very least, weren't playing around with breeding even more of this stuff, I've got some lovely beachfront property in Afganistan to sell you...

The only thing holding back Smallpox from being released today is that:

A) It would infect pretty much the rest of the world
B) The places that hate us the most would suffer the most. The First World Nations would pull through okay (USA, Canada, Britain, Germany, etc.) while countries with poorer healthcare would suffer tremendously (The Middle East, Africa, etc.) Even Russia would not do so well for itself, and can you imagine the biological conflageration China would have on their hands with a nation of 1.2 billion people? Or India, with their 1 billion?