Jamesn for once I have to disagree with your hipster emo talk.
Who I imagine is typing at the other end:
Emo Boy
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we can't really do shit with the common cold and nobody touched smallpox during the cold war. to have devised something like a retrovirus that far prior to having real knowledge or ability to work with genetic code just makes no sense when you think about it.
Wrong on all counts.
Doing anything with the common cold would not make sense. It's a money machine.
The USSR worked almost exclusively on smallpox strains for use in biological weapons. Germany was working on retroviruses before that and before them ultimately the US had a program starting from late 1887 called “Laboratory of Hygiene†run by Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun. In 1889 they were able to identify microplasmas; that's all they needed for a start.
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plus, all diseases in africa are badass, from west nile to marburg.
True, look up Coast Project.
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it's incredibly hard to get in the scheme of things infectious and you can be illiterate and know exactly how not to get it thanks to the wonders of television.
I don't know many illiterate African's that get to watch there favorite episode of Three's Company after a long day of scrounging. 
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