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Did you link to the right thing? That smallpox outbreak didn't have a 90% kill rate and vaccination did work against it. All three of the deaths were amongst th
by UnoriginalGuy 11y ago
Did you link to the right thing? That smallpox outbreak didn't have a 90% kill rate and vaccination did work against it. All three of the deaths were amongst the unvaccinated (with 7 others who were vaccinated surviving).
I'm sure the USSR and US did create super bio weapons during the cold war. The claim isn't strange to me, the link is however.
- danieltillett 11y agoThis was the best result I could find for demonstrating what the soviet smallpox weapons program was about. This outbreak showed that vaccination did not provide protection and the strain caused a very high rate of haemorrhage. When you have only 10 individuals infected you can't really estimate the large scale death rate. The death rate for the strain they developed was estimated from animal studies - not even the soviets were bad enough to test this directly on humans.