Germs Against Man

WHEN, in 1980, the World Health Organization announced the eradication of smallpox as a disease, the plot of a thriller came tomeinan instant.

It was set a few years later, when mankind’s herd immunity to smallpox had declined and much of the population had never been immunized against the disease. A highly intelligent Muslim fanatic, disguising his true beliefs, trains as a virologist, and gains entry into one of the two laboratories in the world still to hold stocks of the smallpox virus. He steals the virus with the intention of converting the world to Islam by the threat of starting an epidemic, his organization having destroyed simultaneously the small number of regional laboratories in which the world’s stocks of vaccine are held, as well as the laboratories capable of producing the vaccine.

About the Author

Anthony Daniels

Mr. Daniels, a retired doctor who worked in several parts of the world, is the author of Mass Listeria, a book about health scares.

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WHEN, in 1980, the World Health Organization announced the eradication of smallpox as a disease, the plot of a thriller came tomeinan instant.

It was set a few years later, when mankind’s herd immunity to smallpox had declined and much of the population had never been immunized against the disease. A highly intelligent Muslim fanatic, disguising his true beliefs, trains as a virologist, and gains entry into one of the two laboratories in the world still to hold stocks of the smallpox virus. He steals the virus with the intention of converting the world to Islam by the threat of starting an epidemic, his organization having destroyed simultaneously the small number of regional laboratories in which the world’s stocks of vaccine are held, as well as the laboratories capable of producing the vaccine.