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🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 206 minutes
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0:00.0 | Their clear objective to create as much human suffering as possible. |
0:10.0 | Tom Fenton, CBS News, London. |
0:13.0 | It has been more than 20 years since smallpox was declared eradicated worldwide, |
0:18.0 | and even longer since Americans stopped being vaccinated. Now the threat of smallpox is back as a weapon of terror, |
0:24.6 | but Jim Stewart tells us Americans have little protection against it. |
0:28.6 | The only remaining stocks of smallpox are supposed to be locked away in research labs |
0:33.6 | at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and similar ones in Russia. |
0:38.3 | But with evidence that Soviet scientists who successfully weaponized it during the Cold War |
0:43.3 | may now be working elsewhere, smallpox gets top billing for a threat capable of killing thousands. |
0:49.3 | You know, I lose my sleep on smallpox. |
0:52.3 | I think that's the worst because it's infectious. |
0:58.0 | Our society is very, very mobile. |
1:00.0 | All you're going to need is a few handful of cases. |
1:04.0 | The United States has 15 million doses of old vaccine on reserve in case of an emergency, |
1:09.0 | and Congress wants to produce another 200 million new doses |
1:12.9 | but the anti-terrorism legislation that would pay for all that has yet to be sent to the president. |
1:18.4 | I think maybe they're stalling for time until they have more vaccine and they figure out what to do. |
1:23.6 | I think a voluntary smallpox vaccination program is inevitable. |
1:28.2 | The smallpox virus spreads through the air from person to person, |
1:31.7 | so the very first smallpox victim to walk into a hospital could potentially infect every person there. |
1:38.0 | Unvaccinated and estimated third of them would die. |
1:41.1 | I want to see the vaccination made available. |
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