The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is a government agency for protecting people from diseases or viruses such as Anthrax or Smallpox. They contain one of the only two legal Smallpox stocks in the world. They have 8,500 employees. It is located in Atlanta, Georgia. They try to use prevention to promote healthier people and a healthier world. This means that they try to kill a disease or virus the instant it starts, instead of waiting …showed first 75 words of 604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 604 total…virus through genetic engineering. They did the experiment on mice. The experiment makes mice, even vaccinated mice, die from mouse pox. It adds the IL-4 gene, an immune system gene, to the virus. This makes the virus have AIDS like effects, and the fear of the world was that a terrorist would make a smallpox version of the mouse pox. It is not very difficult to do; an intern or college student could do it.