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To: jlallen who wrote (15469)	10/12/2002 2:17:20 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

ROTFLOL. God, I missed you. jttmab

To: jlallen who wrote (15469)	10/12/2002 2:23:23 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

Got another funny for you....from the CDC. Where might the [smallpox] virus come from? At one time, it was believed that the smallpox virus was restricted to only two high-security laboratories, one at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and one at the Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology, Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region. By resolution of the 1996 World Health Assembly (WHA), those stocks were slated to be destroyed at the end of June 1999. The desirability of such an action was reaffirmed by a World Health Organization Expert Committee in January 1999. On May 22, 1999, WHA, however, passed a resolution postponing destruction until 2002, by which time any promise of the variola virus stocks for public health research could be determined. Destruction of the virus would be at least one step to limit the risk for the reemergence of smallpox. However, despite widespread acceptance of the 1972 Bioweapons Convention Treaty, which called for all countries to destroy their stocks of bioweapons and to cease all research on offensive weapons, other laboratories in Russia and perhaps in other countries maintain the virus. cdc.gov Isn't that a crack. As far as the CDC knows there are only two countries that have smallpox virus, the US and Russia. Any other country is just speculative. Yet we're buying up millions of doses for what? <LOL> Meanwhile, we don't care a whole lot about the stockpile of vaccine resistant anthrax that the Russians have. jttmab