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Subj: 20 Reasons Not To Take The Smallpox Vaccination 
Date: 09/23/2002  
20 Reasons Not To Take The Smallpox Vaccination 
By Amy Worthington 
1-8-2 

1. George W. Bush has said of smallpox vaccination: "One of my concerns if 
we were to have universal vaccination, some might lose their life." ~The 
Times (in London), November 09, 2001. 

2. For each million people vaccinated with the smallpox vaccine, as many 
as  250 could die, according to the American Medical Association. Multiply 250 
times 285 (millions of Americans) and the possible deaths from universal 
smallpox vaccination could equal 71,250. ~ Journal of the American Medical 
Association, June 9, 1999, Vol. 281, No. 22, p. 2132.

3. "The American Medical Association said on Tuesday it was not in favor 
of  an immediate mass U.S.smallpox vaccination program, saying the potential 
threat of a bioterror attack did not warrant inoculating every American 
against the disease." ~Reuters, December 12, 2001. 

4. "Right now the risk of getting the vaccine is higher than the benefit. 
You could get a secondary infection, a full-blown systemic infection." 
~Marie Rau, Panhandle Health District nurse, quoted by The 
Spokesman-Review, 
November 20, 2001. 

5. CDC director Jeffrey Koplan has admitted that universal smallpox 
vaccination could unleash a significant number of side-effects. He said 
that  because many parts of ourpopulation do not have a"robust immune system," a fair number of people could have serious reactions. ~Koplan speaking on the  PBS special "Bioterror Propaganda" aired by WETA, November 14, 2001. 

6. If the entire nation were to receive a smallpox vaccine, several 
thousand  people would likely develop encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. 
~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001. 

7. Roger J. Pomerantz, chief of the infectious disease department at 
Thomas  Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said that doctors have no idea what the smallpox vaccine might do to people at the extremes of life--less than 
2  and older than 65. He said that an even greater concern would be its 
effect  on people with weakened immune systems from HIV infection, chemotherapy or  transplants. ~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001. 

8. "Researchers have been reluctant to recommend a new vaccination program 
which would use the smallpox vaccine for the local population because the 
vaccine can cause disease and death in persons with inadequate immune 
systems." ~Science, Vol. 277, July 18, 1997, pp. 312-13. 

9. Routine smallpox vaccination in the United States ended in 1972. 
Officials are hesitant to resume the immunizations because the vaccine is 
the most reactive of all and has been linked to serious side effects, 
including death. ~ Reuters, November 29, 2001. 

10. Eight printed pages of medical studies documenting the many serious 
side  effects of smallpox vaccination can be obtained at 
www.whale.to/vaccines/smallpox.html. See "smallpox vaccine adverse 
reactions  66-76." 
[Note: go to the home page above and put "smallpox vaccine adverse  reaction" in the search engine.] 
Repercussions include serious brain and  heart diseases, autism, abnormal chromosomal changes, diabetes, various  cancers and leukemias, plus demyelination of nerve tissue years after vaccination. 

11. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vaccination must not be forced 
on  persons whose physical condition would make such vaccination "cruel and 
inhuman." In other words, the state has no right to command that an 
individual sacrifice his life in the name of public health. ~Jacobsen V. 
Massachusettes, 197 U.S. 11 (1905). 

12. By the 1920s, several British medical researchers documented that 
smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that the DEATH  RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been 
vaccinated. 
This indicates that the vaccine was ineffective and predisposed vaccinated 
persons to more lethal disease. ~Vaccination, Dr. Viera Scheibner, 
Australia, 1993, pp. 205-220. 13. Getting a vaccination does not guarantee 
immunity. ~CDC, January 28, 1994. 

14. By 1987, scientific evidence indicated that the World Health 
Organization's 13-year global smallpox vaccination campaign may have 
awakened dormant HIV infection in many vaccinees. ~Times (in London) May 
11,1987. 

15. Vaccines made from animal substrate contain animal viruses that are 
impossible to filter out. By 1961, scientists discovered that animal 
viruses  in vaccines, including smallpox, could act as a carcinogen when given to 
mice in combination with cancer-causing chemicals, even in amounts too 
small  to induce tumors alone. They concluded that vaccine viruses function as a catalyst for tumor production. ~Science, December 15, 1961. 

16. Some of the new smallpox vaccine doses will be created with animal 
substrate. Because the vaccine will incorporate vaccinia, the cowpox 
virus,  many wonder about possible mad-cow contamination. Fifty-five million doses of the new vaccine will be created using a cell line dating back to 1966 
and  cultured from the lung tissues of an aborted human fetus. ~World Net 
Daily,  December 4, 2001. 

17. The new smallpox vaccine will be genetically engineered. Many 
scientists  believe that genetically engineered vaccines may be responsible for the global epidemic of auto-immune disease and neurological dysfunction. ~American College of Rheumatology, annual meeting, Nov. 8-12, 1998. 

Merck's  genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine, Recombivax HB, is a classic example. According to Dr. Bonnie Dunbar of Baylor College of Medicine, 
many  thousands of reported adverse reactions to the hepatitis B vaccine 
include:  chronic fatigue, neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and  MS-like disease. ~Testimony of Dr. Dunbar to Texas Dept. of Health, March  12, 1999. 
Over 15,000 French citizens sued the French government to stop 
mandatory hepatitis B injections for school children because of resulting 
auto-immune diseases. ~Science, July 31, 1998. Dr. John Classen has 
published voluminous data showing that the hepatitis B and other vaccines 
are closely linked to the development of insulin dependent diabetes. 
~Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, October 22, 1997. 

18. The British vaccine manufacturer Medeva has a horrendous record of 
contamination and blunders. In 2000, the FDA found that Medeva was making 
vaccines in conditions of filth, resulting in contaminated products. 
Medeva  had been illegally using bovine medium to culture its polio vaccines, then  lied about it. Medeva also used the blood of a Creutzfeldt-Jakob victim  (mad cow) to manufacture 83,000 doses of polio vaccine used for (against?)  Irish  children. Nevertheless, the FDA allowed the USA to accept Medeva's flu  vaccine (Fluvirin) for the year 2000. ~London Observer series: October   20-26, 2000. 

19. In 2001, the British socialized health care system was reported to be 
in  a state of collapse, with many hospitals and labs operating in abysmal 
filth. Five thousand people die each year from infections contracted in 
British hospitals; 10,000 become deathly ill from such infections. 
Sterilization procedures are barely adequate and said to be risking the 
spread of mad cow disease. Government ministers are reportedly trying to 
hush up the scandal. ~www.itn.co.uk/ Jan 06, 2001; The Sunday Times of 
London, November 12, 2001. 

20. The U.S. government apparently intends to conduct NO double blind 
studies on the safety and efficacy of the new smallpox vaccine. It has 
ordered 286 million doses, one for every man, woman and child in America 
at  a cost of $428 million. At least half of this vaccine will be delivered by 
Acambis PLC of great Britain. 

Tip of the Week: Keep all vaccine needles away from your body! ___ 

Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter Ingri Cassel, President 
P.O. Box 1444 
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816 
(208) 255-2307 / 765-8421 
vaclib@coldreams.com 
www.vaclib.org 

"The Right to Know, The Freedom to Abstain" 

Comment From kh6 1-9-2 

I wouldn't take the vaccine either but consider this: Point #2 
extrapolates the number of deaths following vaccination at 71,250. For perspective, this number is less than the number of deaths in 1996 from heat disease (733,361), cancer (539,533) and stroke (159,942). The number of deaths from smallpox vaccination would be less than the number of deaths from chronic respiratory diseases (106,027) and accidents (94,948), but more than the number of deaths from diabetes mellitus (61,767) and HIV (31,130) (CDC, 
for  the year 1996). 

Vaccination would kill a lot more people than firearms (1,400) (National 
Safety Council, for the year 1996), though. 

http://www.healthresearchbooks.com/articles/smallpox.htm

engima: 

Yep smells like a scheme to me. Those who already have serious illnesses or 
are elderly and infirm. Wipe out a substantial number of the elderly and 
save social security from bankruptcy and then do it all in the name of 
political correctness or a reason that is socially acceptable to come out 
smelling like a rose. By accident or on purpose the results would be the 
same. Especially when it has been determined that the value of said vaccine 
is questionable at best. the risks outway the benefits............ 

mech 

RAASLA <raasla@netzero.net> 

 Why do people believe in vaccination? 

 Jenner's idea was based solely upon a dairymaid's superstition. He sought to give it a scientific air by calling cowpox (a disease which bears no analogy to smallpox) variolae vaccinae--i.e., smallpox of the cow. 

 The Latin name was not without its effect, and anything that promised less harmful results than the prevailing practice of the direct inoculation of smallpox matter (which had been killing people by 
 hundreds, and afterwards had to be forbidden by Act of Parliament) was acceptable at the time to the frightened and gullible population. 

 The rest was an affair of influence. When once an error is accepted by a profession corporately and endowed by Government, to uproot it becomes a herculean task, beside which the entrance of a rich man into the Kingdom of Heaven is easy. 

 The Compulsory Vaccination Act was passed in 1853; a still more stringent one followed in 1867. And between the years 1871 and 1880 there were 57,016 smallpox deaths. 

 Compare this with the small number in the present day, when considerably more than half the population is unvaccinated, and when awful warnings are periodically uttered about the decimating scourge always "bound to come," which never arrives! Between 1911 and 1920 the deaths numbered only 110. 

 Let us look at the most recent Annual report of the Registrar-General- -the eighty-third. He states that during the last 15 years 53 vaccinated persons have died of smallpox. 

 In addition, there were 92 other deaths of the "doubtful" class mentioned above; that is, those declared by patients or friends to have been vaccinated, but which have been entered by medical 
 officials as "doubtful" rather than take the slight trouble of searching the registers for verification. 

 We may conclude, therefore, that there were 145 cases of smallpox deaths in vaccinated persons in this country during the last 15 years. And yet there were only 78 unvaccinaed deaths during the same period. 

 Thus, the rate of vaccinated to unvaccinated deaths is nearly two to one. 

 This is the more remarkable seeing that during this same 15 years England has been largely unvaccinated, probably to the extent of about 75 per cent. 

 Dangers Of Vaccination

 But the tragedy of the whole sorry business is this: 

 That during thc same 15-year period there is recorded by the same authority the terrible toll of 165 deaths from "cowpox and other effects of vaccination!" In short, vaccination not only failed to save 145 persons from death, but actually killed another 165 in addition! 

 Hence, whereas 78 are alleged to have died because the "preventive" had not been resorted to, more than double that number died from the effects of its use. What have the scaremongers who boast of the "certain and harmless preventive" to say to this? 

 The only way, so far as I can see, that those 165 poor little victims of the eighteenth century Gloucestershire dairymaid's superstition were prevented from having smallpox (if they were ever likely to get it) was in being killed by the "preventive" before the disease could attack them. 

 In some years more persons have been officially certified as killed by vaccination than by smallpox. Besides this, enormous numbers are left with some permanent disability, a fact to which parents, at least, can testify. Meanwhile, whenever smallpox comes, it is promptly and easily dealt with, and fails to spread beyond a limited time and area. 

 Sanitation has practically banished the disease, just as it banished black death, cholera, and typhus. It would appear that vaccination, so far from aiding, actually retarded the decline, for the Registrar- General reported in 1880 that it was the only gross zymotic which showed a rise in the death-rate--that is, after 30 years of compulsory vaccination. 

 The Gloucester Epidemic

 The advocates of vaccination are never tired of quoting the smallpox epidemic which occurred in Gloucester in1895-6. A picture of Gloucester Cemetery is often presented, apparently with the idea of impressing an ex parte statement upon the memory. 

 Where the picture itself cannot be given, the statement alone is made- -viz., that 279 unvaccinated children lie buried in that cemetery (the picturesque detail is never by any chance omitted), together with only one out of some 8,000 children said to be vaccinated before or during the epidemic. 

 The latter figure may be correct officially, but it is incorrect actually, for I worked in Gloucester at the time and came into personal contact with the cases, and I have the names and addresses 
 of 116 vaccinated children up to ten years of age attacked by the disease, of whom 27 died. 

 The truth is that the whole child population of Gloucester was practically an unvaccinated population, the vaccinated numbering only 4 per cent.; hence the greater number of unvaccinated attacked is easily explained. Ten thousand unvaccinated children passed through that epidemic unscathed. 

 The severity of the scourge was due to sanitary defects, which were afterwards remedied at great cost, to the fact that the disease broke out and spread like wildfire in a large unsanitary elementary school, where the vaccinated teacher was the first to succumb, and to the utterly disgraceful hospital conditions to which these little patients were removed. 

 Out of the 1,979 total cases; about 1,750 occurred in the southern half of Gloucester, where the sanitary defects above mentioned existed, the unvaccinated children of time northern half escaping 
 practically unscathed. Nearly two-thirds of those attacked--viz., 1,211 out of 1,979--were vaccinated, in spite of the fact that Gloucester was an "unvaccinated city." 

 Germany And The Philippines

 No European country has had such severe vaccination laws as Germany. They started in 1834, and enforced continual re-vaccinations. Yet in 1871-2 smallpox carried off no fewer than 124,948 in Prussia alone. In Berlin itself there were 17,038 vaccinated cases of smallpox, of 
 whom 2,240 were under ten years of age, and of these vaccinated children 736 died. 

 A particularly interesting case is that of the Philippines. When these islands fell into the hands of the Americans a vast vaccination scheme was carried out, and smallpox, which had naturally been a scourge among the inhabitants owing to the bad sanitary conditions, declined just in proportion as these were remedied. 

 The result was, of course, put down to vaccination, though there is a certain humour in the circumstance that, while the natives were suffering less from smallpox, the vaccinated and re-vaccinated American soldiers fell victims to it, dying at a percentage three times higher than that which obtained among the unvaccinated people they had come to instruct. 

 Of course, the usual thorough system of cleansing, finding its parallel later in the Panama region, was pursued, and for many years it was the great boast of the disciples of Jenner that smallpox was banished from the Philippines. 

 They boasted too soon.

 Within the last few years, in spite of the rigorous vaccination laws, the disease has regained its old virulence, and there were no fewer than 60,612 cases and 43,294 deaths from smallpox in the Philippines during 1919--an enormous toll in a population of something under 11,000,000. 

 Whenever laxity in sanitation occurs, it is clear that smallpox ignores vaccination, just as typhoid fever ignored inoculation during the war under similar conditions. The Americans, content with having once cleansed the Philippines, no doubt shut their eyes to many unhygienic practices. 

 It is one thing to teach natives how to live and start them on a right path, but quite another to see that they keep to it. Vaccination, however, never suffers neglect so long as medical officials are maintained for the performance of the rite; and it is somewhat amusing to find that the Filipinos, horror-stricken at the toll smallpox has been taking, have attacked vaccination itself as the originating cause which seems to them time most probable. 

From "Truth," January 3, 1923 

Sanitation V. Vaccination - The Origin Of Smallpox by Walter S. Hadwen M.D. 

 Dr Hadwen was a passionate opponent of Jennerian smallpox vaccination in England around 1900. 

 Since Edward Jenner demonstrated the use of cowpox vaccine against smallpox in 1796, vaccinations against smallpox were started. Despite this, a smallpox epidemic swept England in 1839 and killed 22,081 people. 

 In 1853 the Government made smallpox vaccinations compulsory, but the incidence of the disease kept increasing, and in 1872 another epidemic killed 44,840 people, most of whom were vaccinated. 

 The compulsory vaccination law was abolished in 1948. Similar disasters occurred in Germany and japan, but possibly the worst was in the Philippines in 1918 when the US Government forced over three million natives to be vaccinated. 

 Of these, 47,369 came down with smallpox and 16,477 died. In 1919 the program was doubled, and over seven million were vaccinated, of whom 65,180 came down with the disease and 44,408 died. 

 The epidemic was a direct result of the vaccination program. 

 These facts are described by Dr William F. Koch in his book 

As long-time readers can attest, I'm no doom and gloomer.   Porter Stansberry 

The world is getting better all the time thanks to freedom, new technologies and the expansion of literacy around the globe.  Even the poorest people in America live better lives than the richest Americans 100 years ago.  World Wars not withstanding, the last 100 years saw the largest 
creation of wealth ever in the history of mankind.  This process overcame communism, religious fundamentalism, the concentration of political power and even the withholding of income tax. 

What I'm about to tell you - while scary - won't reverse the trend toward greater wealth and freedom.  But, the government doesn't want you to know about the real bioterror threat to the United States because they are afraid that you will panic and that the panic will disrupt our way of life and the social order. They also don't want you to know how badly they are provisioning the armed forces for the threat. 

I'd rather you panic a little than die.  And I don't think the government is ever going to tell you how much danger you are in.  The problem isn't anthrax.  Anthrax is a child's toy compared to smallpox.  Here's what you need to know right now. 

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 "I don't think there is any higher biological threat to this nation than smallpox." - Peter Jahrling, principle scientific advisor to the United States Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) 

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 Let me tell you a little bit about smallpox. 

Smallpox is a complex virus that was thought to be eradicated from humans in 1979.  Despite its eradication, smallpox remains the largest historical threat to mankind - by far.  In the 20th century alone, smallpox killed over 300 million people. It is explosively contagious - about as contagious as the measles - and it travels through the air. 

If you're infected, you'll get smallpox by breathing it in or absorbing it through the mucosal tissue of your eyes. You'll feel totally normal for about ten days, during which time you'll infect people you speak with or even breathe near.  After about ten days you'll suddenly come down with a high fever, a backache and tiny red spots will appear all over your body.  The spots will turn into blisters and they'll get bigger, filling with pressurized, opalescent pus.  This will cause your skin to separate horizontally, something called the "splitting of the dermis."  It's extremely painful.  You'll lose the ability to speak and your eyes will be swollen shut.  But you'll remain alert. Death comes through shock, heart attack, by your own immune system's reaction...or worse.  In extreme cases, the virus will destroy the linings of your throat, your stomach, your intestines and your rectum, as well as your skin.  In these cases patients die of massive hemorrhaging. 

 The last major outbreak of Variola Major - the name of the virus that causes smallpox - occurred in 1972.  A schoolteacher in Djakovica, Yugoslavia named Ljatif came down with a fever on March 3rd.  He developed classic symptoms, like the kind I described above.  He was transferred by bus to Belgrade, to the hospital.  On March 9th doctors showed Ljatif to students, believing that he was having an allergic reaction to penicillin. On March10th Ljatif suffered a catastrophic hemorrhage of his intestines.  He bled out and died hours later. 

 Ljatif infected eight people at the local hospital.  He infected 11 people on the way to Belgrade and 27 people at the hospital in Belgrade.  By the end of March 1972, more than 150 cases had been confirmed. Each person infected with smallpox infects an average of ten to twenty people. 

The outbreak in Yugoslavia wasn't a lot worse because the country was still very rural and because many people in Yugoslavia had been vaccinated against smallpox.  (A vaccine for smallpox has been around for over 200 years. Edward Jenner discovered immunology in the late 1700s by vaccinating people with cowpox.  Jenner discovered that milkmaids that had been infected by cowpox never came down with smallpox). 

 Researchers have discovered that smallpox requires a dense human population base to grow.  Smallpox needs 200,000 people living within a 14-day travel window.  Otherwise the virus will die out because it is so contagious and fatal.  Today our entire country, and in fact the world, is 
reachable through air travel in far fewer than 14 days. And, for the last 25 years, there have been no routine vaccinations against smallpox.  Worst of all, even if you were immunized against smallpox (and if you were, there's a telltale scar about the size of a nickel on your upper shoulder) the vaccine wears off in about ten years.  In other words, smallpox could spread through the United States - and around the world - in an epidemic unlike anything the world has ever seen before because of our population density, the lack of immunized people and a very efficient global transportation network. 

The 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia required 18 million doses of vaccine to be controlled.  The entire country was put under quarantine.  And this outbreak was naturally occurring, starting with just one man.  A biological attack would spread far faster because there 
would be multiple points of origin. 

Is there a real possibility of a biological attack on the United States using smallpox, a scourge thought to have been eradicated from the world?  Absolutely. 

 Officially smallpox only lives in two places - in the United States in a freezer at the CDC in Atlanta and in a freezer at the Russian virology institute, which is located in Novosibirsk, Siberia.  But Ken Alibek, who used to build anthrax for the Soviet Union before he defected, claims in 
 his 1992 book "Biohazard" that the Russians kept 20 tons of smallpox ready for loading on missiles aimed at the United States. 

 Smallpox is large, as viruses go.  Much larger than the common cold virus.  But you could still fit 3 million can't imagine why you'd produce 20 million tons of the most the Russians did.  Alibeck's claims have been verified by several sources, including other defectors, such as Vladimir Pasechnik, and international weapons inspectors, such as Frank Malinonski, M.D., Ph.D.  Today Peter Jahrling, who is the principle scientific advisor to the United States Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), says, "There were tons of small pox virus made in the Soviet Union.  We know that.  The Russians have admitted that to us." 

And now?  The Russians say that they can't account for every ampule of virus.  The United States government keeps a list of countries known to be trying to buy or steal smallpox samples.  According to Richard Preston, whose article "Demon in the Freezer" was my primary source for this article, the list includes: Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Serbia, North Korea and Israel. 

Here's the real problem: the United States national stockpile of smallpox vaccine lies in four cardboard boxes inside a walk-in freezer in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at a facility owned by Wyeth-Ayerst, a division of American Home Products.  At most there's perhaps seven million doses contained in the boxes, which have been ruined by moisture contamination.  And, this vaccine is the same type that Jenner built 200 years ago.  It's essentially cowpox pus. Says a virologist who looked at it under a microscope: "It looks like nose snot.  It's all hair and wads of crap." 

Modern technology can do a lot better.  In 1991 Craig Venter and Joe Esposito sequenced the entire genome of Variola Major.  They found 186,000 base pairs of DNA and 187 genes, making the genome extremely complex for a virus.  (HIV, for example, has just ten genes).  Venter noticed that Variola shares a gene that's used by mice to make their placenta, hinting at the origin of the virus.  This genome could allow for a modern and safe vaccine to be created. But that's not what is happening. 

 The Defense Department has contracted with a private firm in Reston Virginia, Dynaport.  The small firm has a contract to provide 300,000 doses of a smallpox vaccine for an incredible $22.4 million - $75 a dose - by 2006!  Pentagon sources have been quoted as saying the smallpox 
 vaccine acquisition program is "...a  #*#*  disaster."  "Three hundred thousand doses is not enough vaccine to protect anyone, not even our troops.  It totally ignores the fact that smallpox is contagious.  These guys ought to be buying tank treads and belt buckles.  They know nothing about vaccines." 

 So...let me summarize what we know about the threat of smallpox. 

 · First, we know that there is a large supply of smallpox available in the world, more than enough to be used as a weapon. 

 · Second, we know that someone has acquired anthrax and is willing to use it against Americans.  The most likely source of the anthrax is the same Russian labs that are known to have made smallpox. 

 · Third, we know that if someone were to begin spreading smallpox in a public place, it would spread rapidly throughout the United States - and possibly the world - for ten days before it would be discovered. 

 · Fourth, we know that there is no readily available vaccine.  The entire stock of vaccine currently available in the United States is less than 7 million doses.  Until 1990 the World Heath Organization kept a stockpile of 10 million doses in Switzerland, but this was destroyed as a cost cutting measure. 

 The people who work with me questioned whether or not I should send this email to you.  They don't want me to scare you. So, let me reiterate that I don't know that any terrorist group has smallpox.  Or that anyone would decide to release it in the United States. 

But on the other hand, it seems plausible to me that a terrorist group might have access to smallpox and might decide to use it.  Hey, after I saw those idiots fly two planes into the World Trade Center, I'm not going to doubt what lunacy they might be capable of... 

Everyday when I drive to work, I don't think that I'll get in a car wreck.  But I fasten my seatbelt every time I drive.  I feel the same way about the threat of smallpox. I don't think it's going to happen.  But if it does, I want to be prepared. 

I think you should have a plan of action that you're ready to take in the event that someone contracts smallpox.  If there's a single case, it won't be an accident.  There haven't been any cases - anywhere - since 1979, when the last outbreak was contained with vaccine on a small island off Bangladesh.  If you hear about a confirmed case of smallpox anywhere in the world, there has definitely been a bioterror event.  And if there's one case, there will be thousands more.  Remember: smallpox is spread through the air, it is highly contagious and there's a ten-day incubation period. 

If I hear about a single case of smallpox, I'll immediately get in my car and drive to my family's remote mountain retreat.  There's plenty of food and water there and very few other human beings nearby.  I'll treat every other person I meet along the way as if they are infected, because they might be.  I'll wear a surgical mask and goggles if I must go out in public and I'll make anyone who joins me at the mountain house wear the same for a ten-day period. 

If I were you, I would buy a surgical mask and keep it nearby.  I'd keep a large supply of fresh water and plenty of canned food on hand. If there's an outbreak of smallpox, it will mostly likely be a global catastrophe.  It will spread beyond the U.S. And it will take several months for 
 vaccines to become available, if not much longer.  It's impossible to estimate how many people could die.  And, because there isn't nearly enough vaccine available anywhere in the world, there's only one way for you to protect yourself: make sure that you don't breathe any of the virus into your mouth and make sure that none gets in your eyes. 

One final note: please don't take this warning as my prediction.  I don't know if smallpox will ever appear on the earth again.  I certainly hope it doesn't.  But I think you are better off understanding the real risk of bioterror than not. 

 With my best regards, 

 Porter Stansberry