[hnarn]

I'm not saying I believe the conspiracies, but it would be a pretty scary future if a totalitarian nation decided to quietly immunize their population (or just a selected elite) from a pathogen designed by themselves, and if push comes to shove you have a bioweapon that will do the job for you, which you know the people you care about can't contract. It's like a smart nuke.

[mcantelon]

Given historical experimentation by the military and intelligence agencies it seems pretty likely that this sort of research is happening.