[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

A smallpox attack would make anthrax look tame by comparison.

[madrastex]

OOPs! When I glanced at the headline, I immediately thought this might be about the sickening Sen Specter. My mistake!!

[GunsareOK]

Voluntary vaccinations (like arming the pilots) is a no-brainer. What's taking the administration so long to decide wheter to implement both?

[claptrap]

This sounds like more liberal hogwash! Point number one:
Smallpox cannot be contracted from blankets unless you are under the blanket with someone who has smallpox! The story
the writer refrences is a lie it never happened! Therefore
the writer is a liar and should have his tounge removed in an unpleasant fashion!

[claptrap]

A smallpox attack is very improbable for your information,
a person infected with smallpox coming on an overseas flight would be quite noticably sick, and would not be ambulatory by the time their flight landed. Also small pox would be very difficult to deliver in the form of a bomb, whoever wrote this article isnt very rescourceful or bright!

[Timesink]

Actually, most Native Americans died purely from friendly contact with the early white settlers. Like Paleo Conservative notes above, many of those settlers were immune yet infectious. The two groups met, the Indians contracted the smallpox virus (or any of several other diseases they'd never been exposed to before), went back to their tribes, and spread it. The settlers had no clue they were spreading diseases.