During thanksgiving break, I continued reading demon in the freezer. The detailed descriptions of the smallpox victims, the pustules, the scabbing, the cytokine storm, and the virus melt caused me to lose my appetite for thanksgiving dinner.
However, I was very confused on the ending. It seems that after a super-smallpox was developed, and the anthrax sample was analyzed, there was no correlation between them. They were both potentially used by terrorists but they never grew smallpox in anthrax spores, only infected many monkeys and were allowed to make a super pox, a potential vaccine that will only work immediately before exposure (in a war environment), but were not allowed to destroy the live strains of the virus.
The ending remains that human nature is not mature enough to see that world eradication is better, or more honorable than making a superpox to use against potential terrorists. The child's arm at the end represents the suffering that will stem from the superpox, all because a man in Russia was fiddling with a cure smallpox, and world leaders refused to kill the strains so that they could one day be more powerful.
It's sad to say members of the CDC, WHO, Vector, USAIRMD are not mature enough to eradicate smallpox for the good of all human beings on earth; instead, they continue testing to rival Russia, and eventually create a superpox with a 100% fatality rate and no real vaccine protection.
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