How big were the fermenters?
… These fermenters were surprisingly big in just simple size. You’d walk up next to them … these were a story and a half high fermenters that were controlled by panels and series of fermenters that were used in some of these facilities. Were you surprised to learn how they were dealing with smallpox? Absolutely. These people were working with smallpox in Siberia when the virus was to be contained, not worked with, in only two laboratories: the CDC in Atlanta and a laboratory in Moscow. And during the visit to Koltsovo we were told that they were working with smallpox. And that is entirely in breach of what had been agreed upon through the World Health Organization for the containment of smallpox. How surprising was that and why is that important to understand? It was a complete surprise that they were working with smallpox in Novosibirsk, because the intention of the smallpox eradication program was first to eradicate every case of human disease, and then when we were sure that the
