[bonesmccoy]

The distinction you are drawing is probably irrelevant. The issue is the level of similarity in the coating of the virus. Without giving you a lecture on viral molecular biology, the similarity between small pox and vaccinia is likely related to similarity in the coating surrounding the two viruses.

Your comments are really timely given the recent publication of a scientific paper where the researchers created a functional polio virus from published gene sequences. The publication was misguided and alot like publishing nuclear weapon blueprints. Our National Academy of Sciences should have had more insight.

Your concern that a vaccine may not function well against bioweapons is valid, but it is wiser to vaccinate against known viruses than to simply ignore the threat.

[Paleo Conservative]

Your comments are really timely given the recent publication of a scientific paper where the researchers created a functional polio virus from published gene sequences. The publication was misguided and alot like publishing nuclear weapon blueprints. Our National Academy of Sciences should have had more insight.

Probably a lot worse.