Yet Another Reason to Question

Why does any laboratory need a live virus of smallpox?  Since plagues are prophesied in the end of days, we might as well face the fact that humanity is, in all likelihood, going to bring several on ourselves . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/11/health/smallpox-found-nih-alive/index.html?hpt=hp_c2