By Periscope On Tuesday, global health officials from the WHO delayed the destruction of smallpox for at least another three years. The best or worst idea ever? After more than 300 million people died from smallpox in the 20 century alone, the virus was finally “eradicated” in 1979. Samples of the virus, however, are still alive […]
CDC's stock of smallpox-causing virus source of debate
By Katie Leslie, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Smallpox may be a distant memory, but the virus that causes the debilitating disease, which killed upwards of 300 million people in the last century alone, is alive and well in Atlanta — at least for now. Today, the two known stocks of the variola virus, held at the […]
