To: stilts
In Richard Preston's book THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER, the point is made that if you have the smallpox virus available then it only takes the equivalent of a moderately equipped college lab to alter the virus and produce smallpox that is vaccine resistant.
I have serious doubts about the medical community being able to quarantine and contain an outbreak of "garden variety smallpox, let alone a strain that would be resistant.
15 posted on
03/28/2003 6:25:04 AM PST by
nebulas
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To: nebulas
Thanks for the heads-up on Preston's book. I'll check it out.
16 posted on
03/28/2003 6:59:08 AM PST by
stilts
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