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Friday > Archives > 2002 > June > June 21, 2002:
Hour One:Coral Reefs
/ Smallpox Vaccination
A new report from the Monterey Institute of International Studies
says a particularly potent strain of weaponized smallpox killed three
people in the former Soviet Union in 1971. The smallpox was apparently
released as part of a military test near the Aral Sea. In this hour
of Science Friday, we'll find out about the outbreak. We'll also get
an update on US plans to guard against a smallpox outbreak here. Should
people be vaccinated against smallpox?
| Plus, elkhorn coral off the Florida Keys is dying. New research
reported this week says that the coral's problems are liked to
a bacterium found in human waste. We'll find out more. Call in
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Elkhorn coral. Photo by Paige Gill, Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary.
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Guests:
James Porter
Professor, Ecology and Marine
Science
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Al Zelicoff
Senior Scientist, Center for National Security and Arms Control
Sandia National Laboratories
Department of Energy
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Bruce Clements
Associate Director, Center
for the Study of Bioterrorism
Saint
Louis University School of Public Health
Saint Louis, Missouri
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
NY
Times: Report Provides New Details of Soviet Smallpox Accident
U.S.
News: Smallpox vaccine is available; treatment being pondered (4/8/02)
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention: Smallpox
Epidemiologic
information on bioterrorism
Anthrax,
Smallpox and Bioterrorism
WHO:
Smallpox
Hopkins
Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies: Smallpox
Elkhorn
Coral: NOAA
Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network- Homepage
ICRAN
The
Extent & Condition of U.S. Coral Reefs
United
States Coral Reef Task Force
This segment produced by Annette
Heist
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