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Smallpox From The Past
An anonymous reader submits "Earlier this year, librarian Susanne Caro was looking through an 1888 book on United States Civil War medicine and discovered a small envelope labeled 'scabs from vaccination of W.B. Yarrington's children' and signed by Dr. W.D. Kelly, the author of the book. After a bit of research, she realized they might be smallpox scabs used in early live vaccination methods and contacted various officials including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC was excited by the find, because it gives them an untreated specimen from over a century ago, and a chance to look at the disease's evolution. Although the FBI had concerns that the smallpox may have been planted in the book, most of the researchers believe the scabs are too old to be dangerous, and they fear they may not even be able to yield live smallpox."
Looks like the GNAA sucked off on this first post!
TrollKore forever!
Uhh, nigger is typically applied to afro-americans. You might be thinking of arabs, which have dark skin and are frequently refered to as 'dune coons'.
The people of Iran are more closely related to central europeans than either the afro-americans or arabs, and many of them in the north could easily pass for German.
Luckily trolls are not an ethnic group that will survive - none of you have a snowball's chance in hell of getting laid.
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
wtf?
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
Well said, sir. There comes a time when one must forfeit karma to trolls.
karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go.
I don't know how frequently it happens to the rest of you, but I score mod points every couple of weeks - I hate having to change from threaded to nested, Not to mention that I dont really have the time to process 2-500 comments per story. I look at high-modded comments that appeal to me and have spawned threads, and then just read and mod the thread. Maybe /. should be more selective with moderators, and offer to pay them say $100 for 24 hours with 5 points, so they can have the time to peruse every comment.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
slashdotters argue that code is artistic work and should not be patentable, that it is more like writing..
On the other they argue for the mandantory release of code..
Should book publishers then be required to release author's works for free on the internet?
This needs to be reconciled somehow. The patent issue I can understand, they often give someone a stronghold on trivial permutations of existing technology. Hopefully it will only be a matter of time before our congress people comes to their senses with this one. We need someone well respected and vocal to educate them.
Mandatory open source is incompatible with capitalism, so why even push it?
In an election it is not possibly to vote against a candidate (simply for the opposition), so please tell tell for whom you will be voting, and why they are any different from others standing?
In what way will they improve the state of governance?
The majority of the voting population of the USA abstain from elections, are you engaging them in your described "discussin of incompetance", would you like to explain how and why the government are incompetant (personally I believe they are but see too many blaming others, e.g., steel imports, rather than justifying this position)?
karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go.