Smallpox virus retention debate
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title:
Smallpox virus retention debate
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The smallpox virus retention debate has been going on among scientists and health officials since the smallpox virus was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1980. The debate centers on whether the last two known remnants of the Variola virus known to cause smallpox, which are kept in tightly controlled government laboratories in the United States and Russia, should be finally and irreversibly destroyed. Advocates of final destruction maintain that there is no longer any
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Debate about the future of smallpox samples
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_virus_retention_debate
date created:
2014-03-27T16:20:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T11:54:05Z
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