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Biosafety Hazard Level 4

"Absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely" - Fred Hintz, CIA inspector general, New York Times, July 30, 1995
"Politics is the Art of looking for Trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it Incorrectly, and applying the Wrong remedy".
Sir Ernest Benn (1875 - 1954)
Also discussed is the dampening of prior euphoria that poliomyelitis virus and measles virus would be eliminated as targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the early twenty-first century
VPH - Viruses, Plagues and History, by Michael Oldstone. (Amazon) (PDF) (cache)


Biosafety Hazard Level 4 is the designation used for facilities that have sufficient safety measures in place to the worlds most deadly pathogens and chemical agents can be handled safely. Prior to Ebola there were very few of these. Andromeda Strain provides a good example of such a facility. They're not as complicated and elegant as a sci-fi movie but you get the idea. They are used in Germ Warfare development and vaccine development. Where the line between the two actually is gets blurry sometimes, for example, is the need to aerosolize Ebola for military or medical purposes?



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Deaths from smallpox per 1,000 populationSweden started vaccinating people against smallpox in 1801. It became compulsory in Sweden in 1816, England in1853, Scotland in 1864, the Netherlands in 1873, Prussia in 1874, and Belgium and Austria never made the smallpoxvaccination mandatory.177418001820184018601880190001234567SwedenScotlandPrussiaNetherlandsEnglandBelgiumAustriaSource: Edwardes (1902)OurWorldInData.orgCC BY-SA2 cy=>>