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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: extinctions
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Date: 24 Jul 89 23:59:29 GMT
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In article <1167@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
> In article <1989Jul23.070623.3848@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> >In article <24043@prls.UUCP> gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:
> >>Every extinction, whether animal, mineral, or vegetable, hastens our own demise.
> >
> >Including that of the species known as "variola major"?
> >Good riddance, too.  It caused smallpox.
> 
> (1) It is not actually extinct; I am sitting three miles from one of the 
>     two places in the world the virus exists; the Centers for Disease Control,
>     in Atlanta.  The other repository is in Moscow.     

And an indeterminate reservoir among various roughly anthropoids
(babboons?) in parts of east Africa.  This is the bunch to worry
about.