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   From: usenet@mikevanpelt.com   
      
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   Lynn McGuire   wrote:   
   >On 3/8/2025 12:56 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:   
   >> Nobody gets vaccinated against smallpox any more, since the   
   >> virus is extinct.  In the wild.  I grimly await some   
   >> (long string of weapons-grade expletives) to break that   
   >> out of the freezer and inflict it on the world again.   
   >   
   >My former USMC son got the smallpox vaccination from a Navy Corpsman   
   >before his second trip to Iraq in 2007.  All 1,500+ men in the Marine   
   >Battalion got the smallpox vaccination.   
      
   Yeah, there was some fear that someone in Iraq may have been   
   harboring a few vials of v. major in a freezer somewhere.   
   Not sure that was a reasonable fear, though.  That's on the   
   list of "non nuclear things you could do that might very well   
   get you glassed simultaneously by everyone who has nukes" list.   
      
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