To: Fred Mertz
"There's no reason to believe that any of our enemies has smallpox virus."
How does he know?
But he's right about the spreading. Naturally humans lived with it for millienia without flu-like spreading. However, unnatural means of spread might be a problem.
4 posted on
09/27/2002 11:57:07 AM PDT by
Shermy
To: Shermy
I thought smallpox was a large factor in the near-extinction of the Native Americans? I admit I haven't kept up with the latest research, but I do remember learning that.
5 posted on
09/27/2002 12:03:23 PM PDT by
m1911
To: Shermy
Couldn't bioengineering affect the rate of spread?
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