Steven Hatfill It’s true that my research expertise is in biology: for example, the Ebola virus, the Marburg virus, and monkey pox, and not bacteriology as in the case of the anthrax organism. It’s also true that I have never, ever worked with anthrax in my life. It’s a separate field from the research I was performing at Fort Detrick. – Steven Hatfill
Scott Gottlieb In ‘Pox: An American History,’ Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak. – Scott Gottlieb
Scott Gottlieb Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear. – Scott Gottlieb
Sarah Snook I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of ‘Big Chief Red Feather.’ The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress. – Sarah Snook
Bonnie Bassler Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they’re childhood diseases, and eventually they won’t even be that. That’s our relationship with bacteria, going through time. – Bonnie Bassler
Lewis BlackSad This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That’s my big scar story. I really have no major scars. – Lewis Black
Jack JohnsonPolitics My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. – Jack Johnson
Katha PollittLegal If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that’s been legal since the 1930s. – Katha Pollitt
