pneumonia it was symptoms of other diseases as well but he didn't think it was any of those things he thought it was something else so i'm saying  raging epidemic of the italian flu so we seeds of fear and throughout the world a severe shortage of vaccine of every kind is reported in almost all everywhere there are ugly confrontations martial law is the order of the day but civil disorder escalated with widespread damage to private and public property and rising death tolls in a number of countries in the united states is no exception but the past several days on capitol hill in washington d c mass demonstrations of tens of thousands of people are daily event this morning the national guard and the police attempted to restore order to free the angry mood the you what do you mean there is no vaccine and then what is it that we're giving the police and fire department personnel the essential services the military alert crews if not a vaccine it's just that we don't have enough of the general populace is that right we have a vaccine of sorts we put together a soup of every flu related back scene we know its effect leaves something to be desired in fact it's more of a placebo than anything else you gave me a goddamn placebo you are doing our best mr president my apologies for being late but i have been gathering the latest intelligence estimates all situation thanks this shows with this italian flu first broke out and the routes by which it has spread here we have a breakdown of victims alive yellow black according to region of this morning mr president i would like to point out the very real possibility that we might not have just an epidemic in our hands we may have a case of germ warfare from where but what source every country on this chart has mastered casualties can you explain that as far as we know some of our information is quite sketchy still the most suspect country should be obvious you have any hard evidence to support this theory we are working on it in the meantime mr president as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff i must request that we go into a stage one alert including the activation of the a when soviet missiles are incoming oh i think it's incoming at the germs the soviets must be made aware of the fact that they cannot take advantage of this situation all right that  that's a point to consider this is president richardson well the message was a brief enough their chief of state died this morning of the italian flu as far as we know or yet gender we don't know whether we're dealing with one plague germ or six we don't even know where it came from or how it is being transmitted maybe we've been looking in the wrong direction what is operation phoenix just a just a paper study oh one of several options being studied and purely theoretical turns mr president nothing more maybe a little bit more it was a paper study it was an active research project involving the genetic manipulation of existing pathogenic viruses it was theoretical new strains were not just starting they were created in laboratory under completely controlled conditions i assure you mr president one strain m m eight was stolen and ever recovered and the president was never told about it and i'd like to know why