Review: Smallpox unleashed..
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2012
I very much enjoyed Ken McClure's, 'Resurrection'! It was somewhat odd to read about Saddam Hussein.. but, as this book is a little older.. we can only give thanks that Iraq did NOT get it's hands on Smallpox.  I was vaccinated against the disease in the mid Sixties.  But, when the WHO eliminated smallpox in the seventies.. vaccinations for it were no longer seen as needed.  This book takes on a nice twist of how researchers are still using portions of the smallpox genome to create CURES for other diseases that plague us today.'Resurrection' is about a government official sent to find out how many research facilities have more of the smallpox genome fragments than they claim to have.  To find out if someone in the research community is trying to resurrect smallpox to use against the unprotected citizens of Europe.  While he is on assignment.. a drug addict is admitted to the local hospital with a severe case of smallpox.Soon, the hospitals are filling with victims.  And, there's no vaccine forthcoming.  The officials must work together to find WHERE the first victim caught smallpox.. and to find out if it's tied to an Iraqi student who recently committed suicide.The book flows nicely!  From beginning to end.  You just need to get your mindset SET.. before 9/11.  I don't want to spoil the ending.  But, it's terrifying that it could be this easy to resurrect the smallpox virus.  May our children NEVER have to go through anything like what Ken McClure wrote about.. in 'Resurrection'.