Man Finds Smallpox Vaccine At Yard Sale

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Man Finds Smallpox Vaccine At Yard Sale

PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia -- Andrew Knickle found something he hardly expected - or wanted - after he haggled down the price of a box of sailing tarpaulins to $2.50 at a yard sale.

"It was a kind of a hard, plastic tube with a screw cap that was labeled smallpox vaccine," Knickle said. "It scared me. All kinds of things went through my head, wondering if this could be meant for some evil purpose in this day and age of bioterrorism."

When he shook the package, which bore a label from Connaught Laboratories in Willowdale, Ontario, and an expiration date of 1973, it was evident that something was inside, he said.

"Usually something like this is under tight control, and I think it's very unusual that it popped up in a box of tarps," Knickle said.

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Lori Price

[atommom]

1. That is really bizarre. And after so many years, we'll probably never

know how it ended up there! Would have made a good X-Files episode....

[formercia]

2. It's vaccine, not smallpox virus

someone didn't trust the government telling us that smallpox had been eradicated.

I wish I had some smallpox vaccine.

[BlueIris]

3. WTF?

That's all I got.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. In the words of that great American philosopher, Charles Brown ...

"I got a rock!"

--p!
You blockhead!