Blocking Smallpox: A Second Defense
- 19 October 2001
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 294 (5542) , 500
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.294.5542.500
Abstract
Variola, the virus that causes smallpox, was destined for obliteration 6 years ago when a select group of researchers took a new interest in it. The team extensively studied a promising antiviral treatment for variola infection that might be useful in containing an outbreak. They also demonstrated for the first time that the virus can cause fulminant disease in a species other than humans. But their work has been controversial, in part because it raises a question about the World Health Organization plan to destroy all known stocks of variola.Keywords
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