alt.war.nuclear

Alibek said it would be naive to think that there are only two sites
that have smallpox. I couldn`t agree more. I posted the same thing I`m
going to say here a couple of years ago again because you may not have
been following this group then.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++National Geographic television ran a
special about smallpox a few years back.
They told of an ou/break in Quebec over a hundred years ago. It was
started when someone dug up a body that had been buried 150 years
earlier. Under the right conditions smallpox can remain viable for150
years.
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Back in the nineties someone sold a farm a few miles from where I
live.There was a small graveyard where family members had been buried.
The source I heard /his from thought it contained maybe five graves . At
least one of the people buried there was known for a certainty to have
died from smallpox. The new owners were not told about the graves. A
bulldozer exposed one of the bodies
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It is not to much of a stretch to think that if a case of smallpox had
occurred in the US shortly after 9/11 that today Afghanistan would be
toast.