I stumbled across this on a CDC web site. Very interesting. Very scary. Very plausible.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/otoole.htm

-- Sam Mcgee (weissacre@gwtc.net), October 03, 1999

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If this wasn't on the CDC site, I'd have thought it was the script for a new "doom" movie.

-- Anita Evangelista (ale@townsqr.com), October 03, 1999.

This scenario is similar to the one described in a recent article by Richard Preston (??) I think, the guy who wrote Hot Zone. What I would do, though, if I were a terrorist, is hit two places with a bio weapon: O'Hare and Harts Field airports. These are the two busiest in the country, I believe, with connections to, ultimately, thousands of locations, and through which tens of thousands of people pass each day. Release smallpox or anthrax there in considerable amounts and the whole country can put its collective/figurative head between its legs and kiss the national ass goodbye. I'm sure, though, that the big brains in the federal government have thought of this and are protecting us accordingly.

-- Kurt Ayau (Ayau@iwinet.com), October 03, 1999.

Contrails anyone? There has been much speculation on the net that some of the contrails is really a massive vaccination program and that people are getting sick in these areas. There was a thread about 3 weeks ago on this.

-- Ed (Ed@bb.bbb), October 04, 1999.

Uh, we have some smallpox vaccine available. A few million doses. not enough to vaccinate the whole country. Would take years to generate enough for a complete immunization programSome of us older folk, 40+ still some immunity from our childhood immunizations. Its kind of funny but this problem with smallpox is a result of our success with it as a disease. Smallpox is unique in that its the only disease which we have been able to eridacate in nature. Thats why we stopped vaccinations. We even had a plan to destroy the last stocks of the virus in research institutes. This was never done. So now we have the situation where smallpox still exists and can become an effective bio weapon, something it could'nt be in the 60's,70's.

-- kozak (kozak@formerusaf.guv), October 04, 1999.