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Quote Originally Posted by theundeadhero View Post
Splitting the atom, going to the moon, eradicting smallpox entirely - nobody gets smallpox anymore because we completely destroyed it. The only smallpox left on Earth is in a couple of labs in the US and Russia. How cool is that? We're working on the same for Polio, and we're damned close to destroying that entirely as well.
That's not true. Everybody that deploys to combat in the middle east gets a smallpox shot. I had one in 2004. It's a horrible shot to get too.
Maybe the US army doesn't know, but it is in fact eradicated. There are books written on the subject.
Quote Originally Posted by WHO
Through the success of the global eradication campaign, smallpox was finally pushed back to the horn of Africa and then to a single last natural case, which occurred in Somalia in 1977. A fatal laboratory-acquired case occurred in the United Kingdom in 1978. The global eradication of smallpox was certified, based on intense verification activities in countries, by a commission of eminent scientists in December 1979 and subsequently endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 1980.
They are afraid of its use in biological weapons. I'm certain that they keep it in a lab somewhere, in case they need to make a vaccin against some sort of mutation.

Plus, almost anything organically can be made in a labratory. Just takes a lot of time.