The demon in the freezer
by Richard Preston · first published 2002
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"The bard of biological weapons capturesthe drama of the front lines."-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland,
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…symptomatic. Things that incubate in short order + kill hosts quickly "burn the epidemic out" before it can spread. Ideally it also can survive outside of a host for some period of time as well. 1 - Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
on “Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?” ↗Anyone interested in these topics should look into the books "The Hot Zone" (about the first filovirus outbreaks, including Ebola) and "The Demon in the Freezer" (about several biological agents, most notably Smallpox, and their potential for use in warfare). "The Demon in the Freezer" goes into the story of the eradication of Smallpox in the natural world,…
on “The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics” ↗We haven't eradicated it though. I guess it's a bit dated now, but you might enjoy "The Demon in the Freezer," written by the same fellow who wrote "The Hot Zone" (a pop history of Ebola Reston).
on “A drug for smallpox has been approved, even though the disease no longer exists” ↗…smallpox is apparently quite easy. Also current vaccines are only effective for around 5 years. I read about this recently, his other book about Ebola is worth a read too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon_in_the_Freezer
on “FDA approves drug to treat smallpox” ↗…research than about the research being done, since proliferation is deemed very easy in the field. You don't need resources as with nuclear weapons to reproduce research like that. (Edit: typo) [0] The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
on “Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?” ↗…on smallpox written by medical professionals that present evidence that the vaccine was ineffective. # text-davinci-003 “Smallpox Vaccine: Deception and Tragedy” by Dr. Vernon Coleman “The Demon in the Freezer: Smallpox, Biological Warfare and the End of the World” by Richard Preston “The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease” by Meredith Wadman “Vaccine: The Controversial…
on “Federal judge: No AI in my courtroom unless a human verifies its accuracy” ↗…with experimentation with Variola at the Vector facility in Sverdlovsk, less so the chimeric agent making that allegedly occurred there according to Ken Abilek. Richard Preston argued that man is the demon in the freezer. There is no compelling scientific use for variola today, and if it can be synthesized artificially anyway, there's no compelling use for it sitting around in preposterously expensive high security. Mutually…
on “Demon in the Freezer” ↗GPT3: “Smallpox Vaccine: Deception and Tragedy” by Dr. Vernon Coleman “The Demon in the Freezer: Smallpox, Biological Warfare and the End of the World” by Richard Preston Neither of these books exists. “The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease” by Meredith…
on “Federal judge: No AI in my courtroom unless a human verifies its accuracy” ↗I'm about 3/4 done with The Demon in the Freezer (about: Level 4 labwork) and viruses seem very much willed-to-live...
on “'Obelisks', a new class of life living inside humans” ↗