Smallpox and bioterrorism.
@article{Drazen2002SmallpoxAB,
title={Smallpox and bioterrorism.},
author={Jeffrey M. Drazen},
journal={The New England journal of medicine},
year={2002},
volume={346 17},
pages={
1262-3
}
}This issue of the Journal contains more information about smallpox than I hope you will ever need. Smallpox was eradicated as a naturally occurring disease over 20 years ago. Thus, any new case of smallpox would have to be the result of human misadventure, either planned or unplanned, involving the laboratory stocks of the virus that were retained in the United States and the former Soviet Union when the disease was contained. Is smallpox a threat to our health? At the present time, there is no…
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