[stlnative]

Well in my post above there is a 3 year old kid and her 28 year old mother who had/has monkeypox and surely they are doing fine! (This kid and her mother are too young to have been vacinated for any type of pox)

This goes to show that monkeypox would not be very effective as a bio-terrorism threat in this country, 30+ people are believed to have it now and no one has died or even have come close to death due to it.

[Trust but Verify]

Yep, but it doesn't stop the multiple postings of obviously skewed numbers from African outbreaks. Those postings should at minimum come with a disclaimer. Otherwise it's nothing less sensationalistic (is that a word?)than what the media is guilty of.

[steve86]

This goes to show that monkeypox would not be very effective as a bio-terrorism threat in this country

You seem to imply that the only effective bio-terrorism weapon is one that carries a great chance of death. That's just not so! Take 100 random 28 year-old women and show them what real monkeypox or smallpox facial scars look like. Make sure these are the centimeter-deep / centimeter-wide craters that are not uncommon. Just because the risk of death is under 10%, these women won't be terrorized by the possibility?