This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
You don't believe that the French Resistance was able to hide weapons and radios from the Nazis, either? Or perhaps that the Nazi's weren't that oppressive after all?
Go to google and look up "Jenner" and "Cowpox". The vaccine uses the vaccinia virus (thus "vaccine") which cross-reacts with variola (the smallpox virus).
We keep the stocks for research into the disease. I think there's an effort underway to sequence the genetic code. Hopefully the research will lead to a safer vaccine than the one we have now. It's based on cow pus.
The government is working on stockpiling enough vaccine for the whole population, but they wouldn't vaccinate unless there were an outbreak. The vaccine can have nasty side-effects in some people, including brain damage, blindness, and death. Not many people, 1 in 250k,IIRC, but that would still be over 1,000 people injured by it if everyone were vaccinated. Those numbers, however, date from the days before AIDS, chemotherapy, and other things that suppress the immune system. It's a 'live virus' vaccine. Because of that it's one of the ones that's used when the danger of the vaccine is substantially less than the danger of the disease.
That we know of. Read the New Yorker piece, a couple of us have linked to it. The Russian facilities are not very secure, and the inventory control there is not good.
And as soon as someone finds a security hole you're applying patches to your VCR, stereo, microwave, etc. What's that? Everything's in ROM? Well, I guees you'll just have to replace the chips. Meanwhile, some skript kiddie just reset your VCR so it only records Britney videos, your microwave to only run at half power, and your clocks are all on different time zones.
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Article VI
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
What's up with Bubba?
Good thing I don't give a damn about karma.
I reckon one of those could play movies.
Dude, if you even tried anything on that date Mrs Torvalds would kick your ass. So be careful! No footsie, no handholding, no gazing into his eyes.
My woddy is stable. Oh, wait, you meant... Sorry.
And without port 80 blocked.
Is this one!
Just imagine what they can do with Jar-Jar...
Terry Pratchett has a book called "mblase"? But who is the reviewer? Could that sentence be more unreadable?
Sounds interesting. If slashdot doesn't want it, how about submitting it to k5?
You can (or could) write viruses in it too.
I live in Reston. I'm heading out rt 7, to Williams Gap. There's a parking lot at the top of the mountain.
Man, major brain cramp.
So we wan't to catch the big pox.
Go to google and look up "Jenner" and "Cowpox". The vaccine uses the vaccinia virus (thus "vaccine") which cross-reacts with variola (the smallpox virus).
I wonder how many people will catch that reference. Somehow, I doubt anyone with mod points will. Insightful and funny.
We keep the stocks for research into the disease. I think there's an effort underway to sequence the genetic code. Hopefully the research will lead to a safer vaccine than the one we have now. It's based on cow pus.
I've added that to my file of biowar links.
That's true, if there is an outbreak. If there is not, then people are risking injury and death for no benefit.
I was vaccinated twice, once in childhood and again in the Army, but the latter was 15 years ago. The vaccine does wear off after 10-20 years.
The government is working on stockpiling enough vaccine for the whole population, but they wouldn't vaccinate unless there were an outbreak. The vaccine can have nasty side-effects in some people, including brain damage, blindness, and death. Not many people, 1 in 250k,IIRC, but that would still be over 1,000 people injured by it if everyone were vaccinated. Those numbers, however, date from the days before AIDS, chemotherapy, and other things that suppress the immune system. It's a 'live virus' vaccine. Because of that it's one of the ones that's used when the danger of the vaccine is substantially less than the danger of the disease.
That we know of. Read the New Yorker piece, a couple of us have linked to it. The Russian facilities are not very secure, and the inventory control there is not good.
Scientific American, Dec 1996
http://www.sciam.com/1296issue/1296cole.html
Living Terrors
Living Terrors
by Michael T. OsterholmPh.D., former Minnesota State Epidemiologist, and John Schwartz, a science reporter for The Washington Post.
Lays out scenarios for anthrax and smallpox, some history of biowar, why public health system needs to be restored.
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies:
home
Smallpox
CDC reports on smallpox attack scenarios:
The scenario
Aftermath of a Hypothetical Smallpox Disaster
Part Two
CDC
Home
S,mallpox
Picture
Modeling Attacks
Public Health Links:
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
Covers emerging and re-emerging diseases such as HIV, Ebola, Tuberculosis, Smallpox.
Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett, Steven M. Wolinsky
How the public health system, in USA and abroad, was allowed to disintegrate.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
A chronicle of the first 5 years of the aids epidemic.
Richard Preston (Hot Zone author) on smallpox
And as soon as someone finds a security hole you're applying patches to your VCR, stereo, microwave, etc. What's that? Everything's in ROM? Well, I guees you'll just have to replace the chips. Meanwhile, some skript kiddie just reset your VCR so it only records Britney videos, your microwave to only run at half power, and your clocks are all on different time zones.
Where where?