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The demon in the freezer is 2002 a non-fiction book on the biological weapon agents. It was also about smallpox and anthrax it shows how the government takes actions on these diseases. They also where trying to decide wether remains samples should be destroyed. The anthrax came in the mail in a envelope. This book was written by Richard Preston. This book talks about the anthrax territory's attacks after 9/11.Peter jarhling . His number one priority was to make a drug that will cure smallpox.Smallpox was a ceases in monkeys at CDC.

The smallpox virus eventually became no longer a threat and the world health organization discontinued recommending the smallpox vaccine. Inventory of the vaccine was also decreased to save money. The virus was
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At the time, weapons for smallpox were being manufactured by two older methods at a top-secret virus-munitions production plant near the city of Sergiyev Posad, forty-five miles northeast of Moscow. At another virus-munitions plant, near Pokrov, about two hundred miles southeast of Moscow, military virus-production specialists converted the plant to the new Vector method of making smallpox in the large virus bioreactors, but they never started the reaction. If one considers that a single person is infected with smallpox it would be considered a global medical emergency.

The first major bioterror event in the United States the anthrax attack was in October 2000. This was a call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways to protect civilian populations against and biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, was his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Richard Preston talks about the Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland. It was once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national

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