[Harrison Bergeron]

"Those are some VICIOUS Integument lesions."

I read in another article that the lesions actually split the skin open and, once they cover the entire body, are as excruciatingly painful as a disease can get without bringing on shock or coma.

[tallhappy]

For some unknown reason, black-pox patients remain conscious, in a kind of paralyzed shock, and they seem acutely aware of what is happening nearly up to the point of death -- "a peculiar state of apprehension and mental alertness that were said to be unlike the manifestations of any other infectious disease," in the words of the Big Red Book of Smallpox

From the above article.

[vannrox]

Arrrrugh! This is frightening. We can't WAIT until the Terrorists attack in mass with something like this. We just can't. We have to be proactive. We have to act NOW!