http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-smallpox-vaccine-lab0329mar29.storyLab Almost Destroyed Smallpox Vaccine By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writer March 29, 2002, 3:27 PM EST PHILADELPHIA -- For three decades, 120 liters of smallpox vaccine sat in a walk-in freezer at a remote mountainside lab in the Poconos, stored at precisely minus-20 degrees Celsius, even though company officials thought the drugs were worthless. "We had actually been developing protocols with the (Centers for Disease Control) to destroy it," said Aventis Pasteur spokeswoman Beth Waters. Then a series of anthrax-tainted letters killed five people in the weeks following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, reviving fears that smallpox, eradicated...