[RetiredArmy]

From KOMO4 Web Site right now:

SEATTLE - A plane at Sea-Tac Airport has been sealed off after U.S. Customs officials in New York received an anonymous tip that the inbound 747 from Taipei, Taiwan had someone on board carrying smallpox.

It has not been determined if it is a valid threat yet, but officials are not taking any chances.

Eva Air Flight 32, bound for Newark, N.J. but in Seattle on a scheduled stop-over, has been quarantined as a precaution. No one is being allowed on or off the plane.

The threat was not specific if the person was infected, or carrying a vial of smallpox.

Again, there has not been any confirmation of smallpox on board. Officials are responding to an anonymous tip.

[Steven W.]

what's the url for that?

[PianoMan]

Let's hope it's a bioterror version of a bomb threat.

[dirtboy]

Officials are responding to an anonymous tip.

Hopefully, like most such tips, this one will turn out to either be false or a hoax...

[Dark Wing]

Anyone can phone in a small pox scare.

Now that one person has done it, more will, until we vaccinate for the flipping disease.

[beavus]

You mean someone saw vial full of stuff that looked like smallpox? Oooo scary. Or maybe some disguised terrorist was carrying a canister with a big label on it that read "SMALLPOX".

[Lady GOP]

Time to head for the hills...?