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...ultimate war game for armchair strategists. A dozen experts gathered at Andrews Air Force Base for two days in June for a germ-warfare assault on America's heartland. The exercise was called Dark Winter. The scenario: Oklahoma, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been deliberately targeted with smallpox virus. The mission: to marshal the full resources of the Federal Government and limit the damage. But even though the players included seasoned leaders--former Senator Sam Nunn acting as the President, former presidential adviser David Gergen as National Security Adviser, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating playing himself--the situation got quickly...
...Noted "It was a virus looking for a disease. What we found was a correlation with survival." MICHAEL MANNS, German scientist, on the discovery of the GB virus C that bolsters the immune system and helps fight...
...disagree that the information highway had a "construction error" exploited by the authors of the Code Red virus [TECHNOLOGY, Aug. 20]. The fundamental structure of the Internet was not the problem in this case. It was Microsoft's error that resulted in a security hole. Perhaps it is time that Microsoft stop focusing on swallowing yet another segment of the electronics market and instead make sure its 300 million-plus current customers will have secure, uncompromised computers when they wake up tomorrow. ABE JELLINEK Newton, Mass...
...Further complicating the issue is the fact that while Godot appears healthy, he is still infected with the AIDS virus. That means even in the best case scenario, this "vaccine" might only be capable of keeping a person?s viral load under control, or even imperceptible - but it would not block the virus from entering the body. That kind of non-vaccine vaccine, adds Dr. Laurence, has a demonstrable psychological downside...
...What do people think when you give them a vaccine that doesn?t actually prevent the virus from entering the body? They think, oh, well, you wouldn?t have given me this if it didn?t work," Dr. Laurence says. "So people go out and engage in high-risk behaviors, because they feel invincible, and then we see the inevitable emergence of breakthrough infections...