[vannrox]

Arrrrugh! This is frightening. We can't WAIT until the Terrorists attack in mass with something like this. We just can't. We have to be proactive. We have to act NOW!

[null and void]

OK, anybody know where I can expose my kids to cowpox? It was the very first vaccination against smallpox...

(It's what Jenner used in 1798, The very word "Vaccination" comes from cow "vacca" in Latin)

[Jim Noble]

>>We have to act NOW!<<

I don't think we should publicize the progress we are making towards increased vaccine availability-because we may put Iraq in a use-it-or-lose it scenario.

I believe the vaccine will be shown (or already has been shown) to be effective at a 10:1 dilution.

It is an interesting exercise in human psychology, though, to wonder how we could simultaneously a) Permit retention of variola by the USA and USSR in recognition of its role as a bioweapon, and, b) Stop vaccination because variola had been "eliminated".