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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 »

South Australia to be tested in ‘Exercise Golden Fleece’ – Stock Journal

The national emergency animal disease Rapid Response Team will be taking part in Exercise Golden Fleece, responding to a hypothetical 'outbreak' of foot and mouth disease. The exercise will be held at a number of centres across the region, …

Smallpox: Why do USA and Russia hang on to stockpiles? – BBC News

The World Health Organisation is debating whether to preserve or destroy the last known stockpiles of smallpox, which are held by Russia and the USA. Giles Dilnot explains the background before Professor Gareth Williams from Bristol University claims…

Lab Samples Of Live Smallpox Should Not Be Destroyed To Ensure Critical …

Medical News Today – 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

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