"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
Lessons Learned: Efforts are being taken to eliminate laboratory stocks of polio, in anticipation of eradication of the disease:
"When polio is eradicated, every effort must be made to ensure that wild polio virus is not similarly transmitted from the laboratory," the CDC said.
Polio, which can cause paralysis and death, is not thought to be as dangerous as smallpox as a bioterrorist weapon because less than 1 percent of those infected with polio develop symptoms. People around the world also have been vaccinated against polio for decades.
