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I agree. Gates' comment about smallpox seemed like a red herring.Fair, but my point stands. I don't think it will happen. Maybe they will try and fake something up, but I don't think there will be a smallpox outbreak in reality. So, I can't really offer you a plausible mechanism from my way of thinking. Again, it's like asking what type of craft the aliens will show up in and from what planet as I suggested earlier.
I think all "pandemics" need some other supporting cause, like war or famine or tainted food and water or whatever. Spanish Flu came right after WWI, and just so happened to hit 20-40 year olds the hardest, who would have been the vast majority of soldiers in that war. The Typhus epidemic plaguing Europe in the 1940s happened right during WWII.