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"I remember that according to official statements, there are only two places in the world that store smallpox virus samples, right?" Jack looked at Max.

Max still maintains a paralyzed expression. From a psychological point of view, this is a self-protection behavior of a socially anxious person, but his condition is much milder than Chris's at the beginning.

"In the last century, the smallpox virus caused the deaths of about 3 to 5 million people. There is no specific medicine for this virus after it infects the human body. Humans finally eliminated this horrible virus through vaccines and isolation.

The only places known to hold samples of the smallpox virus are the CDC headquarters in Atlanta and the Biological Research Center in Koltsovo, Siberia, Russia.

Although the world entered a Cold War scenario of bipolar hegemony after World War II, it was precisely because the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, reached a compromise that smallpox became the first infectious disease in human history to be eradicated.

Humans are the only host of the smallpox virus, and its history of transmission can be traced back to 3000 years ago. Traces of smallpox pustules were found on the head of the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses V.

After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union began to confront each other in various fields, including the medical and health field.

After the implementation of the Marshall Plan, WHO (World Health Organization) was once completely controlled by Ame. Assu, who was also a founding member, announced in anger that it would stop its actual work in the organization.

This situation lasted for 10 years, from 1948 to 1958, when WHO was almost unable to promote any global medical cooperation.

After President Yu Meixiaofu and President Johnson, who launched the Vietnam War, came to power, the US-Soviet rivalry entered its second stage, and the US happily stepped into the bottomless pit of the Vietnam War.

At this time, Asu had also recovered from the heavy losses in World War II. The offensive and defensive situation had changed. Feeling that he was able to do it again, Asu returned to the WHO with the momentum of "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west".

Faced with smallpox, the sword of Damocles that hangs over humanity all the time, after consultations between the two major countries, the WHO was responsible for coordination, Amerika provided funding, and Afghanistan worked to produce the vaccine.

From 1967 to 1977, after a full decade of work, 20 billion doses of vaccine and a scientifically rigorous implementation plan, the two giants of the Cold War worked together to eradicate the smallpox virus that was raging around the world.

For some well-known reasons, Seris, which did not join the WHO until 1972, was excluded from this global cooperation from beginning to end, or was deliberately ignored.

Of course, Seris didn’t care much about this at the time, because as early as 1961, Algeria had completely eradicated the smallpox virus in the country entirely by its own strength.

As a result, smallpox became the first infectious disease in human history to be completely eradicated, but its subsequent development was somewhat ugly. The WHO repeatedly asked Argentina, Argentina and the United States to destroy the last smallpox samples, but all requests fell on deaf ears.

After countless wrangling and consultations, the two samples were finally preserved and became one of the bargaining chips used by the two superpowers to deter each other, in addition to nuclear weapons.

"The last person recorded to have died from smallpox was Janet Parker, a British female medical photographer who died in 1978 from a laboratory virus leak.

At that time, WHO approved Henry Bedson of the University of Birmingham Medical School in the UK to remain and continue studying the smallpox virus in his laboratory until the end of 1978.

On August 1978, 8, Janet, who lived upstairs from Bedson's laboratory, suddenly developed cold symptoms. Five days later, a rash appeared on her body. She was not sent to an isolation hospital until she became completely blind.

After confirming that she had smallpox, the British authorities began an investigation. Upon learning the news, Henry Bedson realized that the virus must have leaked from his laboratory.

This scientist, who had devoted his life to studying the smallpox virus, chose to commit suicide out of guilt, and Janet died five days later, becoming the last known human to be infected with the smallpox virus and die at his hands.

Jack closed his laptop with a sigh and read to everyone the information that Alice, who was far away in New York, had just sent him.

In less than half an hour, his meeting with "Five-O" was interrupted by several phone calls. The Governor of Hawaii called Danny again and made a lot of promises to get things done, only asking them to find out the truth before things got out of hand.

Dana Moger, who was far away in New York, and David Rossi, who was currently working a case in Florida, also called Jack.

After confirming that someone's injury does not affect the action, they all hope that Jack can fully assist "Five-O" to resolve the matter as soon as possible.

Rossi also conveyed the statements of certain senior military officials, who assured the FBI in a rather obscure way that there were no biological laboratories storing smallpox viruses in the Hawaiian Islands.

Jack still believes this because the smallpox virus is a relatively stable double-stranded DNA virus and only two subspecies have appeared after it has wreaked havoc in human society for thousands of years.

Compared with some RNA viruses that frequently mutate and result in extremely poor vaccine effectiveness, smallpox seems to have a very high mortality rate, and its incubation period of up to half a month is very conducive to its transmission, but it is not the first choice for biological weapons, and vaccines can effectively isolate its transmission routes.

The reason why it has attracted the attention of all parties right now is mainly because the name of smallpox is too big. Once it spreads out, it will really damage the reputation of the country.

After all, there are nominally only two places in the world where virus samples are stored. Compared to believing that the virus leaked from Siberia and spread to Hawaii, people are obviously more likely to cast their suspicious eyes on Atlanta.

"The CDC's Atlanta lab just checked samples of the virus stored in liquid nitrogen and confirmed that they had not been swapped. So could he have been infected while serving in Iraq?"

Kono looked at Max, but the latter immediately shook his head and denied her unreliable guess. "The incubation period of smallpox cannot be that long. Judging from the symptoms shown by the corpse, the time from infection to the development of the current situation cannot exceed two weeks at most."

"So the first thing we need to find out is when and where Brian Palmer was infected with the smallpox virus, and at the same time investigate his whereabouts in the past two weeks, right?" Danny tried to sort out his thoughts.

Jack glanced at Max who seemed to be hesitant to speak, knowing that this socially anxious person had something to say but didn't know how to start the conversation, so he simply made a gesture to him to please.

"Well, I don't think he was infected through normal means." Max hesitated and expressed his opinion.

"What do you mean?" Except for Jack who had half a bottle of water, everyone else present was a complete poor student in this area and did not understand what he meant for a moment.

"The main route of transmission of smallpox virus is direct contact. Although there is a certain chance of transmission through clothing with the virus and droplets during conversation, that is, aerosols, the transmission rate is generally low.

These are the normal ways, and my discovery is that

Max bowed to Kono who was standing in front of the computer and said, "Can I use the computer for a moment?"

Kono was a little overwhelmed by his serious look, so he took two steps back and made room for him. "Of course, go ahead."

Max selected one of the photos he had taken on his computer and showed it to everyone. "Although I only gave him a cursory examination, I noticed this particular scar."

He enlarged the photo, and a piece of festering skin appeared in front of everyone. "Pay attention to the location of the scab. Although it is a little blurry, I can confirm that it is a pinhole."

Danny covered his forehead, glanced at the photo, and quickly looked away, "You mean, the virus was most likely injected into his body?"

"It sounds like this is a good thing?" Cheng Hao looked at Max and then at Jack and found that both of them had strange expressions.

"If it's a single source of infection, the CDC only needs to control and isolate those who have had contact with him." Jack sighed and answered evasively.