What is MB's opinion on smallpox jabs?Another false positive?The smallpox virus, known formally as variola, officially exists in only two places on Earth: a high-containment laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the VECTOR research center in Koltsovo, Russia. These are the only repositories sanctioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) since the late 1970s, when global vaccination campaigns drove smallpox to extinction in the wild. But the full picture is less tidy than that two-site answer suggests, because forgotten vials have turned up in unsecured locations, the virus’s DNA has been recovered from centuries-old remains, and advances in synthetic biology now make it theoretically possible to rebuild the pathogen from scratch.We are all doomed in the end, but MB thinks it will happen sooner if we try to use science to protect us.
James Roy ● 14h