[ppaul]

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It was the first, and so far the only, infectious disease to have been eliminated from nature by human effort.

Let's pray that human depravity doesn't bring it back again.

[tallhappy]

Amen.

[Kay Soze]

Thank the Muslims for the fear that this irradicated disease will return.

The west cures and the Islamic world destroys.

Who is the great Satan?

[Theresa]

I am not so worried about smallpox. As far as I understand it smallpox cannot spread until it is put into a human host. Then by the time it becomes infectious that person is dreadfully sick and would not be up to walking around the mall coughing on people. He would be at home, on his deathbead writhing in pain. Given this I can't figure out how the enemy could make sure the smallpox spread to enough people at once to kill en masse. It's like they would have to grab people up, inject and them with it. I am not clear on this. We hear too much about who might have stores of it and not enough about how and if it can be deployed and what the probablity is that an enemy has figured out how to deploy it.

[He Rides A White Horse]

That was when officers of the World Health Organization certified that smallpox had been eradicated from planet Earth.

It seems to me that smallpox is more of a threat than anthrax. Some friends and I were discussing this yesterday.

Because smallpox vaccinations offer immunity for only seven to ten years, and because routine vaccinations stopped in 1980, the world is in effect a virgin population, and highly susceptible to a reintroduction of the virus.

That's what we were afraid of.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I was going to post some pictures of smallpox victims, but I think I'm going to pass at this time.

[jonathonandjennifer]

. Unfortunately, there are several other potential sources.

This from a Nov 5 NR article about Cuban spies. "Jose de la Fuente, a top Cuban scientist who escaped the island by boat in 1999, said recently that Castro's minions know how to manufacture anthrax bacteria and the smallpox virus."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[GeekDejure]

If smallpox CAN be brought back it WILL be brought back, as it is in the nature of Muslim creature to do so !!!

[GeekDejure]

All of this recent crap with Bush cozying up to Putin makes me want to vomit right in GWBs face !!! Does he not understand that the Russians . . . just like the Arabs, et al., want us all to be DEAD . . . DEAD . . . DEAD ?!?!?!

[GeekDejure]

All of this recent crap with Bush cozying up to Putin makes me want to vomit right in GWBs face !!! Does he not understand that the Russians . . . just like the Arabs, et al., want us all to be DEAD . . . DEAD . . . DEAD ?!?!?!

[BillF]

ALTHOUGH it marked an event of far greater importance to human well-being and happiness than the moon landing, the date May 8, 1980, was largely unheralded at the time and is now mostly forgotten. That was when officers of the World Health Organization certified that smallpox had been eradicated from planet Earth. It was the first, and so far the only, infectious disease to have been eliminated from nature by human effort.[My bold added.]

Would PETA raise hell & sue under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) if the officials tried to eradicate a disease today?

I'm not sure if ESA covers viruses (probably not), but the "logic" of the animal rights (AR) wackos is that we should not interfere with nature or at least minimize our interference with nature. Therefore, even if the wackos approve treating a disease, their "logic" would dictate that we NEVER eradicate a disease. By definition the disease has an important function in the ongoing evolutionary or Darwinian processes and the overall ecology.

This may sound far-fetched, but the AR wackos already have farmers loosing their livelihoods over sucker fish and fire fighters dying because water from a stream with endangered species must be treated extra carefully.

[Dixie Mom]

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