Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus
In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that smallpox had been eradicated. In 1986, WHO''s international Ad Hoc Committee on Orthopox Virus Infections unanimously recommended destruction of the two remaining official stocks of variola virus, one at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the other at the VECTOR laboratory in Siberia. In June 1999, WHO decided to...
In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that smallpox had been eradicated. In 1986, WHO''s international Ad Hoc Committee on Orthopox Virus Infections unanimously recommended destruction of the two remaining official stocks of variola virus, one at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the other at the VECTOR laboratory in Siberia. In June 1999, WHO decided to...
