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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (5369)10/16/2001 7:21:19 AM
From: RocketMan  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Those are the open stocks. There is, or was, widespread belief among analysts that North Korea and Iraq had hidden caches of smallpox, obtained from the old Soviet Union stocks. The head of the Soviet bio-weapons program (can't recall his name right now) left Russia for the U.S. and provided much of this information. And blood samples from North Korean soldiers showed recent immunization to smallpox. Same with Iraqui soldiers, but it was not clear whether those were recent or leftover from when everyone was vaccinated. That was in the early 90s as I recall, and the credibility of those reports was high enough that Clinton canceled the scheduled destruction of US stocks. Whether they still have smallpox (I understand it has to be cared for, in a special cooling unit, etc) we don't know. There was a NY Times article on that a few years ago, here is a report on that report
expressindia.com
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