A woman who was part of Russia's secret smallpox program was supposed to have taken and sold several vacuum bottles of smallpox to Saddam Hussein a few years ago. Only it wasn't just ordinary smallpox virus.
She sold the Iraqis Blackpox, the hemohagaic smallpox that has a kill rate of 97%. It kills like Ebola, blowing out the human body like a an old sack.
For which I would hazard the current vaccine might be relatively ineffective.
Remember, it was the Russians who proposed eradicating smallpox in the 1950s. Twenty years later, it was done. The UN pressured Reagan to destroy CDC stocks. He told them to pack sand. Ten years after that...
Think of where we might be had Carter won a second term.