Word: smallpox
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...slipped out of the country and put on a commercial airliner bound for the U.S. Dozens of passengers within spitting distance of the Iraqi agent are unknowingly infected. Just as U.S. troops arrive in Baghdad, thousands of American civilians begin experiencing fever, nausea and backache--all the symptoms of smallpox...
...highest levels of the U.S. government, officials seriously believe this sequence of events is possible. No one knows for sure whether Saddam possesses smallpox, and no one is sure he would actually try to use it. The Iraqi regime insists that it does not have any weapons of mass destruction, including biological ones. But the Bush Administration is sufficiently worried about a possible smallpox attack against the forces set to invade Iraq that last month it ordered vaccinations for 500,000 frontline military personnel...
...confined to the battlefield. Faced by the difficulty of outfitting missiles with chemical and biological warheads, Saddam may conclude he will have better luck setting up terrorist free-lancers with unconventional weapons to use against innocents outside the theater of war. A Rand Corp. report estimates that a smallpox attack carried out by teams of special-ops troops on the 10 largest U.S. airports could infect between 5,000 and 100,000 people...
...Down are doing just that. They say that a protective nasal spray like the one described above could be a few years away. Coley Pharmaceutical Group, a U.S. firm working with both military agencies, says preclinical data show that its CpG drug protects mice against anthrax, certain strains of smallpox, the Ebola virus and other potential bioterror agents. Normally the body's immune cells detect pathogens, triggering protective measures after an infection takes hold. CpG mimics immune cells, causing the body to think it is infected before it actually is. The body's immune system is then at full strength...
INOCULATED. PRESIDENT BUSH, 56, against smallpox; in Washington. The President has called for all frontline military personnel and health-care workers to be vaccinated as well, citing the possibility of biological warfare. Bush is not yet recommending the shot, which carries rare but serious side effects, for the general public. One or two out of every million people inoculated will be killed by the vaccine, and 15 will face life-threatening complications...