Battling Bioterror: Small Pox, Anthrax, and other Threats

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Battling Terrorism: Bioterror, Small Pox and Anthrax
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The mesh umbrella shielding us from bioterror
Ah, we of the short memory.
Perhaps people are thinking “It can’t happen to me.” Or perhaps the thought of it is just too unpleasant for Americans to even stay focused on. Worse yet, perhaps we’re all so caught up in our lattes and laptops that we just don’t stop to consider how frighteningly (and easily) possible it would be for a determined individual or group to eradicate large numbers of us with simple diseases or toxic agents.
Yet regardless what the reason is, clearly we’re not at all concerned about chemical and biological weapons anymore — even though it wasn’t all that long ago that the entire nation was held ransom by the fear of anthrax in our mail (remember also that this crime hasn’t been solved yet). That attack was extremely small-scale and specifically targeted, yet still managed to sicken and kill a handful of Americans — none of which were the intended victims…
But imagine how many deaths a well-organized, large-scale, open-air attack using this very same bio-toxin would result in. Likely hundreds. And what about multiple attacks in several metropolitan areas simultaneously? Such would surely kill thousands of us, and paralyze the rest of the country so completely we’d likely go bankrupt as a nation, or nearly so, anyway.
Not pleasant to consider (or reconsider), is it? Nevertheless, according to a recent report by the British Medical Association, it may currently be possible for evil-minded scientists or the dictators that puppet them to loose upon us deadly viral illnesses that would rival the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 that killed 40 million worldwide.
Aside from whatever security measures are in place, only the anemic Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention stands in the way of such an action — a pseudo-treaty initiated in 1975 which carries with it NO PROVISIONS FOR MONITORING and NO MEANS OF ENFORCEMENT. One reason why this treaty is really nothing more than a “gentleman’s agreement” between nations is that the United States won’t ratify attempts to strengthen the treaty, even in the wake of September 11^th.
Why won’t we vote to beef up the measure? Because the U.S. biotechnology industry (in many ways nothing more than an offshoot of the drug business) continually pressures presidential administrations to avoid signing anything that could inhibit their “research.” International conventions are always a collection of fools anyway; no good will come from it, but it gives me a chance to rant on the subject.
And apparently, that now includes the manufacture of deadly new bio-terror toxins. Keep reading…
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WHO’s (not) afraid of smallpox?
In an astonishing reversal of position, the 192-nation World Health Organization (WHO) has come out in favor of tinkering with the smallpox virus in ways that could render it vaccine-proof, according to a recent Associated Press article. Needless to say, this comes as a shock to most in the scientific community.
Long known as staunch advocates of destroying the last two (that we know of, anyway) remaining stockpiles of the virus — one at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the other in the former Soviet Union — the WHO now advocates allowing researchers to conduct genetic experiments with the virus.
The reason? Ostensibly, it’s to allow scientists to stay ahead in the bioterror game. This is the WHO’s rationale: Since global villains already have the ability to develop strains of smallpox that are resistant to all known vaccines and treatments, drug makers and medical researchers should be able to breed smallpox-based “superbugs” in order to be able to develop effective treatments for them.
It’s like a biological arms race!
As much as I hate to say it, if it is indeed the case that the baddies have these bugs or the capability of making them (according to the article, at least one escaped Soviet scientist claims that covert caches of smallpox-based weapons existed in the 1980s — God only knows who has them now), the WHO’s new outlook on the situation might be the only course of action that could protect us at all from a madman determined to wipe us out with a killer virus. And if we are dependent on the WHO for survival, we are TOAST.
But if they’d just done what they said they were going to do all along, we wouldn’t have to grapple with this dilemma at all. See what I mean about international conventions?
Always racing to arm you with the facts — no matter how shocking,
William Campbell Douglass MD, II
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