[rdavis84]

FYI

[NautiNurse]

I thought they determined the 10:1 dilution was not effective several months ago. Otherwise, interesting read about the lab history.

[Savage Beast]

Oh, well this makes more sense. I thought somebody was just rummaging around in the freezer and accidently discovered 85 million doses. You know how it is. I'm always discovering things I had forgotten about in the back of the freezer.

[Carry_Okie]

It was the Soviet Union who recommended to the UN Security Council that smallpox be glohally eradicated in 1954. As far as I am concerned, eradicating the pest, waiting for the vaccination program to become inoperative, waiting until all immunity has worn off, and then foisting a pandemic is a rational military plan. There are only two known sources of the virus: CDC and BioPreperat (IIRC) in the Soviet Union.

OK, so if it isn't us, who is it? If we are saying that such a bio-weapon is a real possibility, where would it originate? Why then aren't we calling it what it is?

Anybody who thinks that an enemy patient enough to plan such a crisis 45 years in advance isn't still an enemy is smoking something. As far as I am concerned, either the cold war was never over, or our government is planning something awful. Either one would rationally demand an underground private vaccination effort. There is cowpox still in England. What is the plan? Why are we waiting?

[Lion's Cub]

BTW, doesn't anybody question why a drug company, presumably in business to make money, would end up with 85,000,000 "left-over" doses? Are we to assume they just didn't know that smallpox was essentially eradicated when they manufactured that many doses?