[zog]

--this is funny, I am more reading this "tip" as someone smuggling in some smallpox, ie, "they have smallpox". Like in a vial, not that they are sick with it.

[Grampa Dave]

If you are interested in the use of smallpox as a weapon and more about the disease:

HISTORY AND POTENTIAL AS A BIOWEAPON

"Smallpox probably was first used as a biological weapon during the French and Indian Wars (1754-1767) by British forces in North America.3 Soldiers distributed blankets that had been used by smallpox patients with the intent of initiating outbreaks among American Indians. Epidemics occurred, killing more than 50% of many affected tribes. With Edward Jenner's demonstration in 1796 that an infection caused by cowpox protected against smallpox and the rapid diffusion worldwide of the practice of cowpox inoculation (ie, vaccination),4 the potential threat of smallpox as a bioweapon was greatly diminished." (link to AMA paper on smallpox as mass terror weapon)

Then you can go to yahoo.com and in the search area enter: Small Pox. There are several articles without scare tactics that you can read to answer most of your questions!