[RBurke]

Vaccination against smallpox as a preventative measure, in total absence of the disease would result in 25,000 deaths in the USA.

30% of 1 million is NOT 25,000. It's 300,000! Thats only 1 million out of the actual 12 million population of the US. Those are the CDC, Govt and John Hopkins figures--and I trust their calculations and studies more than your math skills.

[scottiewottie]

What an idiot you are! First I said nothing about your 30% exposure figures. I cited historical data about vaccination that shows .01% of all vaccinated do die or become permanently injured from the vaccine. Then your figures about vaccination were actually more gruesome, stating that one in ten thousand die from vaccination. That would mean that a vaccinated population of 250 million would have 25,000 deaths without a single case of smallpox discovered!

Then you failed to notice that the 30% mortality rate in the experiment was theoretical and presumed no treatment of the exposed. Truth is that given an outbreak of a weapon of this kind, 30% mortality rates would not be realized. This was a theoretical outbreak with fictional fatalities.

Never did I ever extract 30% fatalities against any number. Why? Because the number was ficticious. Because my point is vaccination, without a single case of the disease will kill .01% of those vaccinated. It would be foolish to vaccinate in anticipation of a non-confirmed threat.

[Robert Lomax]

Come on, there are more than 12 million people in the United States...............

[Rebelbase]

And, we cannot discount the scenario of a new, upgraded version of the pox (derived from ex-Soviet bio labs) being unleashed.

Money talks. The material and money starved peoples of the ex Soviet countries are susceptable to bribary and being bought off. Corruption there has been rampant. This nasty stuff did not go away when the empire crumbled.

People like Saddam and Bin Laden have no moral conscience and obscence wealth. Their goal in life is to die fighting for Allah and to inflict as many casualities on Americans as possible.

Those who have postulated that a pox epidemic would not be unleashed by terrorists because it would indiscrimantly kill Moslems are fools.