Meanwhile, an airborne virus with a 10% fatality rate
North Texas reports a rare case of monkeypox, imported via a commercial flight from Nigeria. Those of us who were vaccinated for smallpox before that routine practice was discontinued around 1980 are believed to be immune.
Some of us were vaccinated against Smallpox more recently, because Saddam was thought to have stockpiles.
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