“The Demon In The Freezer” is a New Yorker article written in July 1999 by Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone (about the Ebola virus). It’s a pretty scary look at the smallpox virus, going into the deadly effects of the virus, the eradication efforts completed in 1979, and the catastrophic implications of an outbreak. Some of the information is thankfully dated, especially that of less than effective vaccine research and production in the late ‘90s that has since been put into a new focus after the events of last year. Still, I’m left with a great feeling of dread after reading this article…