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RE: Smallpox, Vaccination, and Oscillatory Epidemic Dynamics
I just read an article on the Huffington Post about live samples that were accidentally left in a lab from the 1950's had live samples in 2014. Scary stuff.
Right! We are one broken test tube away from a nice little plague... They ran a simulated test in the US government in the mid-2000s as part of a bioterrorism training program. Terrible response times.
One of the hardest parts about smallpox is that there are not huge stockpiles of vaccine sitting around. If it was to breakout, we would be fighting against time trying to produce and regulate all of the necessary vaccine.