To: Tumbleweed_Connection
ABSOLUTELY
IF a Bio-Attack will occur, you can be assured that the points of attack will be multiple (thus forcing a number of "islolation and containment" rings.
Further that the attacks will be staged. Meaning that the "natural" waves of attack will be confused. As different points of insertion at different times make idolation rings ineffective.
Also this is against a no longer immune citizenary. In the past, the attacks would only have a 30% effective rate of fatality, primarily because the grade of Smallpox is "natural" AND that the population has been exposed to less-than-lethal variations in the past. This is no longer true.
The grades of Military smallpox are designed in two very awlful ways. The first is that they are now extremely fatal. Death rates exceeding 95% can be expected. Further, once the individaul contacts the germ, that is it. They are doomed. But most frightening is the horrible fact that the military grade has been developed to create a slow and painful and agonizing death that would linger over time. Three weeks of painful blisterings that are immune to pain relieving drugs. Expect it.
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09/26/2002 4:14:23 PM PDT by
vannrox
To: vannrox
One ping please. One ping...
To: vannrox; bonesmccoy
The grades of Military smallpox are designed in two very awlful ways. The first is that they are now extremely fatal. Death rates exceeding 95% can be expected. Further, once the individaul contacts the germ, that is it. They are doomed. But most frightening is the horrible fact that the military grade has been developed to create a slow and painful and agonizing death that would linger over time. Maybe someone knows the answer to this:
Is the smallpox that Saddam would release weaponized or military grade (and does that mean those are the same thing?) and if so, then is the vaccine we would be given going to protect us from that?
Is it a different strain, in other words, from the type the vaccine should prevent?
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