I ran into my colleague Judy Miller, a bioterrorism expert, and asked if we should be worried about smallpox, camel pox and mouse pox.
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Referring to an Australian experiment that made a smallpox cousin called mouse pox 100 percent virulent, Epstein wrote, " Not only would unleashing a highly lethal biological agent be an unparalleled disaster for humanity, but also the journey from a laboratory to such a calamitous outcome is shorter, and less outwardly visible in biology than in almost any other field ."