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[nikolino840]

All known stocks of smallpox worldwide were subsequently destroyed or transferred to two WHO-designated reference laboratories with BSL-4 facilities – the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) and Russia's State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR.

 

[SurprisedPikachu]

We should keep it just in case we somehow have an outbreak and need to utilize existing data to combat it.

 

[nikolino840]

We should keep it just in case we somehow have an outbreak and need to utilize existing data to combat it.

What about terrorists or earthquake like fukushima nuclear plant?

 

[SurprisedPikachu]

What about terrorists

Guantanamo Bay.

or earthquake like fukushima nuclear plant?

/shrug

 

[SirKicksalot]

 

[Tesseract]

no

 

[infinitys_7th]

This is the first time someone ever wanted to commit genocide on smallpox.

 

[Mikado]

"Whoa whoa whoa. There's still plenty of infectious DNA on that smallpox. Now you take this to a BSL-4 facility, throw it in a pot, add some HIV, some SARS..."

"Baby, you've got a stew going."

 

[Punished Miku]

Keep it. Aliens might attack us someday.

 

[godhandiscen]

What about terrorists or earthquake like fukushima nuclear plant?

Bio terrorists won't go after the highly quarantined samples. There are tons of bioweapons that can be bought for peanuts in the black market.

 

[Mistake]

Well we have genome mapping now, so do we actually need the original samples?

 

[nikolino840]

Bio terrorists won't go after the highly quarantined samples. There are tons of bioweapons that can be bought for peanuts in the black market.

Yeah but the smallpox Is like the atom bomb of the chemical weapons