Liberal hogwash? Smallpox must be a serious concern or MILLIONS of vaccination doses would not have been ordered by the government. Was it hogwash millions of us were vaccinated for smallpox years ago? Why were we vaccinated? Is it hogwash that smallpox kills roughly 30% of those infected? Is it hogwash few in America have been recently vaccinated and thus are prime targets for a sweeping epidemic?
However, it is clear that even a small release of the variola virus — say aerosols sprayed simultaneously at several major airports — would have catastrophic consequences.
This deliberate infection would require only the virus be sprayed into crowds, not carried there by those already sick with the disease.