Opinions - Should we destroy the last bit of the smallpox disease?

[PhantomJack]

i dont really understand why we shouldn't destroy a disease.
isn't it good to do this?

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[Citrus]

i dont really understand why we shouldn't destroy a disease.
isn't it good to do this?

[IsaacKronenFaust]

If we have the ability to utterly destroy an infectious disease, we should not be concerned with keeping a little bit of it just in case an outbreak occurs.

[Doomonkey]

If we have the ability to utterly destroy an infectious disease, we should not be concerned with keeping a little bit of it just in case an outbreak occurs.

Exactly, as long as we can destroy ALL of it. But I think we should write down it's genetic code first.

[IsaacKronenFaust]

Tch, whatever. Not that it will cause any harm in the hands of the World Health Organisation.

[Joker Card]

Nope.

There was a case a few years ago in like, Botswana, or something.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Anyways, smallpox isn't needed for a SMALLPOX vaccine. They use cowpox to prevent the smallpox virus, and it has worked since the 1770s.
You cannot use the argument that Smallpox could cure smallpox.

You do know what a vaccine is right?

[Oasis]

No. They are studying it, helping our understanding of it.

[Night Fox]

I'm white 8)

THEM DAMN ANGLO-SAXONS

[Tylale]

Bump.

[fred da kiko]

every disease, including the bubonic plague, is kept in a small, sealed container in a guarded area controlled by the UN and the respected country. the same is done for plant seeds.

[skelolego229]

now we need s planet large enough to store every strain of the common cold

[Trogtor]

I don't really understand why we shouldn't destroy a disease.
Isn't it good to do this?

[Cybertails1998]

gah I had chicken pox last week

[sir dooble]

I don't see what harm comes from keeping it so highly secured in order to research it.
It's not impossible that there are or can be similar strains of it that could come to light any time in the future, which research of this strain could have an effect on destroying.
It's not something you want to be released, obviously, but there isn't any true benefits from destroying it entirely.
The disease is very secured as it is.

[Nymethus]

The next question could be "Should everyone do what the ISO agrees on?" or similar. (they should, but almost all questions seem this obvious anyway)