[Nogbad]

ping

[GailA]

Probably similar to cow pox.

[PsyOp]

A pox on all your Camels!

[Semper911]

Um, did anyone else catch this radio show and happen to remember Andrew the Canadian's LAST NAME?

It is kind of hard to take it seriously when we can't check up on Andrew the Canadian's credibility and background. Why is he in the loop, and why is he making it public on a nighttime radio talk show?

(Does radio have sweeps month like teevee does?)

[Jean S]

It's related to cowpox and it doesn't appear that it's dangerous but the last article below refers to Iraq's research into biological weapons.

THE GENOME OF CAMELPOX VIRUS
Camelpox
Iraq: Presumably if you're working on camelpox you are working on smallpox.

[deport]

Camelpox by Google........

Camelpox: Camelpox causes fever and skin rash in camels but rarely infects humans. It is a virus closely related to smallpox; thus, Iraq may have been studying camelpox in order to learn more about using smallpox as a biological weapon. Iraq conducted preliminary studies on camelpox beginning in 1990 but is not known to have advanced farther.

[AdA$tra]

I am pretty sure I smoked some camelpox back in the '70s.

[knak]

Iraq pursued an agricultural BW capability before the Persian Gulf War experimenting with wheat stem rust and camel pox. These efforts reinforced concerns that offensive agricultural BW activities still continue in some states. Such efforts are even more disconcerting considering that Iraq's work with camel pox may have been a surrogate for smallpox.

PDF file from Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute

[knak]

this is interesting too

In August 1990 the Iraqis looked at three viral agents: hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, human rotavirus, and camel pox. Camel pox is not a disease of humans, and usually does not affect humans. The Iraqis told UNSCOM that the Iraqi population lived with camels all their lives and were immune to this disease, but coalition forces were not. UNSCOM wondered whether they selected camel pox because it can be manipulated using genetic engineering. The Iraqis denied it.

Profile of a Proliferator: Iraq's Biological Weapons Program Very interesting article!

One more:

Besides smallpox, other viruses can potentially be used as weapons. For example, camel pox is a disease that blinds its victims by making the eyeballs bleed, produces balloon-like sores on the skin, and was actually found to be developed by Iraq. It is thought to be harmless to most Iraqis but not to foreigners.

sounds pretty bad to me! Here's the link

Hidden Killers: Military Uses

[My Identity]

From "The Demon in the Freezer":

POXVIRUSES move easily through the animal kingdom. Along with herds of animals or swarms of insects come poxviruses circulating among them like pickpockets at a fair. Esposito once classified what he and other virologists have glimpsed of the poxviruses in nature. He noted monkeypox, swinepox, buffalopox, skunkpox, raccoonpox, gerbilpox, a few deerpoxes, a sealpox, turkeypox, canarypox, pigeonpox, starlingpox, peacockpox, dolphinpox, Nile crocodilepox, penguinpox, two kangaroopoxes, and a quokkapox. (The quokka is an Australian wallaby.) Any attempt to get to the bottom of the butterflypoxes, mothpoxes, and beetlepoxes would be something like enumerating the nine billion names of God.

p.s., the above article states that Russia has 20 tons of smallpox, with no security/tracking system.

[gwynapnudd]

Let the pre-attack demonization of Iraq begin. They've had it coming. Let's just hope Bush the lesser does a better job than Bush the elder did!

[Junior]

I suppose it causes you to break out in humps...