"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
US officials gave ministers a classified briefing, which one participant said included a stark account of the horrendous consequences of a possible smallpox attack on a US city.
In a simulation exercise '"Dark Winter" in which academics, senators, and administration officials participated last year, smallpox spread within 13 days from Oklahoma City to 25 states and 15 foreign countries.