[bimbo]

A Smallpox attack is not too likely. The last known case of the disease was in Africa (Kenya?) in 1977. Since then, the only known existence of the virus was at CDC in Atlanta and at a Soviet site in Siberia.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

A Smallpox attack is not too likely. The last known case of the disease was in Africa (Kenya?) in 1977. Since then, the only known existence of the virus was at CDC in Atlanta and at a Soviet site in Siberia.

If you realized that the guards at that Russian site were going unpaid for months at a time and could be bribed for a few bottles of Vodka, you might be a great deal less sanguine about the likelihood of a smallpox attack.

The World Health Organization has issued an alert to all governments to be prepared for a possible smallpox outbreak. My guess is that they weren't just sitting around and decided: "Gosh, we've nothing better to do, let's release this smallpox alert just for fun!"

[Interesting Times]

A Smallpox attack is not too likely. The last known case of the disease was in Africa (Kenya?) in 1977. Since then, the only known existence of the virus was at CDC in Atlanta and at a Soviet site in Siberia.

Not so.

Soviet defector Ken Alibek claims that some 20 tons of weaponized anthrax was manufactured...

[Interesting Times]

More cheerful information here.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"A Smallpox attack is not too likely. The last known case of the disease was in Africa (Kenya?) in 1977."

Somalia. It gives me the creeps thinking about the Somalia/OBL connection when I think about smallpox... I know its irrational... but if you do a google search on "smallpox" and read about the excruciating pain and horrible disfigurement it causes while it slowly kills a child... it's enough to cause nightmares.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"A Smallpox attack is not too likely. The last known case of the disease was in Africa (Kenya?) in 1977."

Somalia. It gives me the creeps thinking about the Somalia/OBL connection when I think about smallpox... I know its irrational... but if you do a google search on "smallpox" and read about the excruciating pain and horrible disfigurement it causes while it slowly kills a child... it's enough to cause nightmares.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"A Smallpox attack is not too likely. The last known case of the disease was in Africa (Kenya?) in 1977."

Somalia. It gives me the creeps thinking about the Somalia/OBL connection when I think about smallpox... I know its irrational... but if you do a google search on "smallpox" and read about the excruciating pain and horrible disfigurement it causes while it slowly kills a child... it's enough to cause nightmares.