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SmalPox in Pakistan.

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The residents of Naro Banda, a rural area in the district, told this correspondent that a majority of the children in the village had suffered from smallpox a few years back.

That right there shows it isn't smallpox. Those children would all be dead now, or at least most of them, and the rest scarred horribly. And it would have spread fast, and killed alot more people in a matter of a few years.
 
i'm curious, who's to say a differnet strain of small pox doesn't develop somehow? Is there some medical/scientific reasoning as to why it wouldn't be possibly?
 
Small pox is a uniquely human virus. That means it evolved with us probably for millions of years. For a virus like chickenpox to suddenly become a new strain of small pox isn't too likely. In humans being a fatal infectious agent is not a good evolutionary strategy. Chicken pox is still around, but small pox isn't.

With great effort the world eliminated small pox but the infectious disease labs, read germ warfare labs have kept it around. Human's are insane. The universal need to kill everybody who's different, which, of course makes us all the same, is the form our insanity takes. When you contemplate the ever increasing use of technological weapons of mass distruction, you realize, or should, that we will either wake up or die.
 
Originally posted by: IGBT
Art Bell mentioned this story tonight..said the bureau chief confermed the story...

I can't believe you're not questioning this more.

Smallpox is an extremely deadly virus. It kills more than 60% of the people it infects. There is no death toll mentioned in yoiur story. Not even an estimated death toll. Nor is the story corroberated by any other source.

If this were really happening, WHO and the CDC would be all over it. Not to mention the major news outlets. Every news organization has people in Pakistan right now.

It's not happening, IGBT. Either the paper is full of it, or they are mistaking chickenpox for smallpox.
 
Originally posted by: IGBT
Art Bell mentioned this story tonight..said the bureau chief confermed the story...

He's about as credible as www.dawn.com... (I can't say whether the story's true, but it's interesting that mainstream media so far has not picked it up.)
 
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