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RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sun Sep 26 18:14:04 1999

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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:53:40 -0700
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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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At 1:20 PM -0700 1999-09-26, Jim Choate wrote:
>----- Forwarded message from Lucky Green -----
>
>From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
>Subject: CDR: RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror
>Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:58:54 -0700
>
>Of course Americans are no more vulnerable today to bios than they were 20
>years ago. We are still the same species we were 20 or a 100 years ago. And
>designer bugs are still rather uncommonly found in the possession of those
>that might use them.
>
>----- End of forwarded message from Lucky Green -----
>
>Wrong. Americans today are pretty much immune to measles, smallpox, polio,
>etc.
>We may be the same species we were 100 years ago but the environment we live
>in isn't.

Read the article John Young placed on Cryptome some time back, Richard
Preston's "The Demon in the Freezer," http://cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm

This will change your view about just how "immune" Americans are to smallpox.

A good book to supplement this is Ken Alibek's "Biohazard." Also the usual
books such as Horowitz's "Emerging Viruses,"  Garrett's "The Coming
Plague," and Preston's "The Hot Zone."

--Tim May

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