Smallpox Still Haunts Scientists: Results of a Questionnaire-Based Inquiry on the Views of Health Care and Life Science Experts and Students on Preserving the Remaining Variola Virus Stocks

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared eradication of the dreadful disease “smallpox” in 1980. Though the disease has died down, the causative virus “variola” has not, as it has been well preserved in two high security laboratories—one in USA and another in Russia. The debate on whether the re...

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Main Authors: Thangavelu Srinivasan, Vidyasagar Devaprasad Dedeepiya, Sudhakar John, Rajappa Senthilkumar, Helen C. Reena, Paramasivam Rajendran, Madasamy Balamurugan, Gene Kurosawa, Masaru Iwasaki, Senthilkumar Preethy, Samuel J. K. Abraham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/672813
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