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To: KLP who wrote (67624)	1/22/2003 4:51:14 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Do you or does anyone know how long it would take to have a vaccination work if there was an bio attack, and no one had been vaccinated? I understand that they would have plenty of time to take care of business when they were hit by smallpox. Someone may tell me I am wrong about it, but that is what I have read.

To: KLP who wrote (67624)	1/22/2003 5:52:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Smallpox isn't on sale at the local 7-11. If I remember rightly, it was down to about 2 laboratories in the world a decade or so ago. A guy in the British one wrongly thought he'd inadvertently let it escape and killed himself. So for a start, it wouldn't be easy to get hold of. Diseases aren't like the good old days when large portions of the world could be wiped out. Vectors of transmission are greatly reduced these days. With modern communications, vectors would reduce even faster if some bugs were released into the wild. One announcement on tv, "Don't kiss your neighbours or even your family and preferably wash cutlery between use and don't share joints or you might get bubonic plague" and it would be game over for disease spread. Terrorists would only get those they directly infect and a few in the vicinity. In the crowded Moslem third world, with limited disease control technology and ways of life conducive to disease transmission, such diseases in the wild would wreak terrible havoc, so it's not in their interests to turn rampant, virulent disease loose on the world. Mqurice