Yaaaaayyyyyy….

Forgotten vials of smallpox found in Bethesda, Md.

Officially, smallpox is supposed to exist in only two places on Earth: science labs in Atlanta and Moscow. Many people argue that these samples should be destroyed so that they cannot be used to re-create the disease. Others argue that the samples should be retained in order to recreate the smallpox vaccine in case the disease makes a comeback somehow. IMO, this incident provides ammo for the latter argument. Smallpox is *out* *there,* somewhere. In some forgotten storage facility, or some population of rodents in some Amazonian backwater, it’s out there. And chances are good that it’ll find its way back into the human populace. And without a vaccine, millions could easily die.