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Smallpox virus destruction talks falter at WHA – CIDRAP

A World Health Assembly (WHA) committee that took up a resolution to destroy the remaining stocks of smallpox virus failed to reach an agreement today, despite a working group's attempts to find an acceptable solution. …

Row at WHO meeting over smallpox – News24

Geneva – The World Health Organisation on Monday held a stormy discussion over the future of smallpox virus samples, which Russia and the US are seeking to preserve while others want them destroyed. The question surrounding the destruction of the last …

Fate of last smallpox virus samples to be determined today

The World Health Organization officially declared in 1979 that smallpox has been eradicated; in the three decades since the WHO declaration, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Russian government laboratory near Novosibirsk have been the last two places to keep samples of the smallpox virus; during this time,  Read More »

FAO acts to cut foot-and-mouth disease in S. America – Xinhua

SANTIAGO, May 19 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday it has launched a program aimed at eradicating foot-and-mouth disease in South America by 2020. Under the initiative, owners of about 70 percent of …

Science goes global to combat animal diseases

YORKSHIRE POST — The Government claims that the UK will be better protected against animal diseases like foot-and-mouth, thanks to a global network dedicated to scientific research. The increasingly globalised movement of animals, people and food have greatly raised the risk of animal diseases spreading to the UK – a danger which poses serious economic,  Read More »

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