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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (16607)	5/3/2003 2:20:00 PM
From: Edscharp	Respond to of 21614

Bubba, "The smallpox was a gargantuan effort that included a proposed nationwide vaccination" Small pox is extremely contagious, but there is a known vaccine. SARS is, in spite of news media hype, relatively non-contagious with no vaccine currently available. Most authorities view it as patently ridiculous to suppose that SARS is a useful bio-terror weapon or a bio-war weapon if only for the simple fact that illness for most people is relatively benign and because without a vaccine the illness would work against it's creators as well. The vast majority of SARS patients suffer flu-like systems and do not die. Most of those who have died were older and/or had additional serious health issues.