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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3908443" data-attributes="member: 20741">One of the two remaining sources in the world of the small pox virus is locked away in a CDC lab in Atlanta. The other remaining sample of the strain is believed to be under lock and key in Moscow. Doubtless, both Russia and America feel the samples they retain are at the highest level of high security containment that exist for biological hazards in the entire world.  They probably also have elements of "nuclear weapon" security  - at least in Atlanta - given that this virus is awesomely dangerous.  We don't even innoculate for it anymore. It's been wiped out in the wild since 1979.(Note: It is possible that the virus does exist in the wild on Vozrozhdeniya Island in Kazakkstan due to a biological weapons testing program having been conducted by the Soviets in the 1970s. The scary part is that the island is in the Aral Sea - which is shrinking and the "island" is soon to be merely a peninsula - connected to the mainland. Happy thoughts, eh?).I'm old enough that I've been innoculated for smallpox. I bet a significant percentage of the readers of this post are not though.But those virus samples exist, just the same. Never know when you might need something like that - right?Vague contingencies coupled with the self-assuredness that "it's perfectly safe here" are good enough for America. Hell - even WHO changed its policy and now accepts that small samples of the virus should be retained for possible research for some vague and uncertain future contingency.If that's good enough for the UN, the CDC and the USA... Why wouldn't that be good enough for a dozen people at the Company?</blockquote>

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