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Julie Gerberding seemed pretty chill about it according to the New York Times in 2003. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/us/us-health-official-is-optimistic-on-containing-monkeypox-virus.html

Seems different from the fear porn being peddled on WAPO at the time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/07/17/focus-on-smallpox-threat-revived/a78d316e-8056-440f-a2bc-d7fe33635ce6/

She? was set to retire this month and begin her new role as the Leader of the FOUNDATION for the National Institute of Health. https://www.biospace.com/article/merck-s-gerberding-retires-takes-new-role-as-ceo-of-fnih-/

Possible new angle: morbillIiviruses. This seems to possibly integrate well with what they had for this phase of their plans.

"There's one obvious lesson from rinderpest eradication - that declining measles immunity will mean humans are susceptible to other morbilliviruses.

Of course, we can't predict which, or even if, a virus would emerge. But reported infections in monkeys makes CDV a prime candidate"

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50839868