Awaiting vote by UN to keep stockpiles of virus for another five years, officials say
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from:msnbc.comUS wants to delay destroying last smallpox viruses
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Lets be wise and keep our supply of small pox virus!! This is a volatile world,you never know who has a secret stash of this stuff as it's never been verified if every country has turned over their supply.
Small pox did not originate as a man made disease, it was a natural occurring disease. The smallpox virus is said to have emerged about 10 thousand years BC. The virus' genes suggest that it was once a rodent virus that made its trans-species jump into humans in one of the early agricultural river valleys. It has been around for thousands of years and has been associated with many deadly epidemics.There is NOTHING to prove that it could not reappear again naturally or that another country doesn't also have some stashed. I think we would be wise to keep what we have in case of another epidemic.
Cass--Hmmm,which diseases are man made?
That would depend on what conspiracy theorist you talk to Honeybird :D
The first half of the 20th century saw the use of the biological weapon anthrax by both the Germans and Japanese, as well as the subsequent development of biological weapons programs in nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia. Today, biological weapons are outlawed under 1972's Biological Weapons Convention and the Geneva Protocol. But while a number of nations have long destroyed their stockpiles of bioweapons and ceased research into their proliferation, the threat remains.