Only two labs in the world are allowed to keep smallpox, Atlanta and Russia.
Only two labs in the world are allowed to keep smallpox, Atlanta and Russia.
Wait wait so a consensus does not mean proof?
The lineage probably mutated a short time ago and befuddled the researchers.
Syphilis also radically mutated in a short period of time.
Viruses mutate all the time to become more virulent or capable of jumping species. Look at the recently detected and highly virulent avian flu making its way through Europe and the multidrug resistent bacteria recently found lurking on a midwestern farm.
muvmhv wrote:
Wait wait so a consensus does not mean proof?
No, of course not. What a consensus means is that utter morons who have zero expertise in a subject area actually know way more about it than the scientists who study it.
I hate that phrase "science is settled", but at least it seems to be springing back against those who used it in the first place. The distinction between observational science versus experimental science could also be made.
So what other illness with exactly the same symptoms and high mortality rate suddenly disappeared around the same time smallpox appeared?