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Here's the article you posted. The bold emphasis is mine.

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Lawrence J. Joyce
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11/21/01

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson
hhsmail@os.dhhs.gov
FAX: 202.690.7203

cc:
President George W. Bush
president@whitehouse.gov

BY EMAIL AND FAX

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Allow me please to take a moment of your time to explain why I have called a press conference in which I call upon you to make some doses of the stockpile of smallpox vaccine available to certain workers in the transportation and related industries now during the holiday travel season. I wish to elaborate on the points on which I am quoted in this week’s issue of Insight magazine
(Nov. 26th issue, pp. 24-25).

Allow me to briefly state my background. I am a pharmacist and an attorney. I am a registered pharmacist in the States of Arizona, California, and Illinois. I am a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona, the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, and the Supreme Court of the United States. As a member of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) I
was privileged to participate in a tour of the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds Biological Warfare Unit in August of 1996. DDP is a private organization of doctors and researchers who advocate civil defense. Its luminaries include Dr. Jane Orient, President of the Academy of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Edward Teller, the inventor of the hydrogen bomb, Dr. Robert Jastrow, Director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, and Dr. Martin Kamin, the discoverer of carbon-14. Its web site is http://www.oism.org/ddp.

Upon returning from Dugway I did some further research into the topic of germ warfare, and later that same year began publishing my findings in my book, LESSONS FROM DUGWAY: What I Learned About Surviving Germ Warfare At The U.S. Army Proving Grounds. My web site is: http://www.germwarfarebook.com.

A terrorist, of course, needs a large percentage of unvaccinated workers in the transportation and tourist industries in order to conduct a smallpox attack near its theoretically most efficient level. Accordingly, I ask you to make available at least some of the stockpiled doses of smallpox vaccine to persons in those industries who have never had a smallpox vaccination in their entire lives. In addition, I would suggest that persons working in those fields who received a smallpox vaccine early on in life be tested to determine what their titer of antibodies against smallpox is in order to ascertain whether they would need booster shots now.

In saying this I note that, according to an Israeli Defense Forces study, persons who received smallpox booster shots as a child might still have some protection for thirty years, and possibly longer. (El-Ad B. The persistence of neutralizing antibodies after revaccination against smallpox. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 1990;161:446-448.) Consequently, we might not even have to release enough doses to vaccinate everyone in those industries in order to have 100% coverage. And some of those who were vaccinated during childhood might only require diluted booster shots to be protected. Thus, we might not have to tap into a large amount of the stockpile in order to frustrate the terrorists.

Releasing the stockpile of smallpox vaccine after an attack has started is not enough because smallpox, I would remind you, has about a 12-day incubation period, and can take up to three weeks to produce symptoms. Consequently, tens of millions of people could be infected before the government even starts to respond. Vaccinating persons working in the airline, trucking, tourism, and related industries, by contrast, could at least partially inhibit the spread of the disease.

If persons working in those industries were well-prepared with vaccinations, we might actually prevent some attacks, because then the terrorists would not be able to accomplish even a fraction of what they want. That's the main difference between my approach and the present posture of this administration. This current approach doesn't deter an attack. It only tries to limit the damage after the attack has taken place. But I say that an ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure.

God bless the United States of America.

A copy of the press release follows this text.

Sincerely yours,

Lawrence J. Joyce