With a little genetic engineering camelpox could be used as a bioweapon.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Iraqi officials also admitted to U.N. weapons inspectors that they had conducted military research on a closely related virus called camelpox, which could have been used as a "surrogate" to develop production and dissemination techniques for smallpox virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scared Of Smallpox] Reference

A given organism might be a purely agricultural threat, such as camelpox, to an overlap agent that threatens both humans and agriculture, such as Inspection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

It had experimented with camelpox, a benign bug in its own right but more likely a stand-in for the much more worrisome smallpox virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Can Iraq Do?] Reference

Geoffrey Smith of Imperial College in London sequenced a strain of “camelpox” virus isolated from camels in Iran in 1970 and his findings were published in the April issue of the Journal of General Virology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camel Virus Becomes Iraq’s Most Deadly Weapon? | Impact Lab] Reference

Saddam Hussein has investigated dozens of biological agents causing diseases such as gas gangrene, plague, typhus, tetanus, cholera, camelpox and hemorrhagic fever, and he also has the wherewithal to develop smallpox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address to the United Nations Security Council on Iraq and WMD] Reference

Saddam Hussein has investigated dozens of biological agents causing diseases such as gas gangrene, plague, typhus (ph), tetanus, cholera, camelpox and hemorrhagic fever, and he also has the wherewithal to develop smallpox.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2003] Reference