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Zelicoff's analysis goes further: He suggests that the particular
so-called Aralsk strain must have been epidemiologically selected to be
as hot as possible, "the strongest recipe of smallpox," in Burgasov's
inimitable phrasing. A commentary on Zelicoff's analysis, written by
smallpox expert Dr. Peter B. Jahrling of the U.S. Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Diseases, puts it this way: "We know that the
Soviet bioweapons development program attempted to select natural
strains of increased virulence and that one of the selection criteria
was hemorrhagic diathesis in mice and embryonated eggs." In other words,
Soviet bioweaponeers deliberately tested strains of smallpox to select
those most likely to "go hemorrhagic."