Lab Samples Of Live Smallpox Should Not Be Destroyed To Ensure Critical Research Continues
In a Comment published Online First by The Lancet to coincide with the World Health Assembly (WHA), scientists appeal to the internationally community not to set an arbitrary date for the destruction of the final smallpox-causing variola virus samples held in two high security labs. The authors are concerned that outbreaks are still possible in the future due to bioterrorism or unknown pockets …
Published May 19, 2011.
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