Monday, May 16, 2011

Should the last smallpox virus be destroyed?

From NPR:This week in Geneva the World Health Organization is expected to decide whether the time has finally come to destroy the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus on the planet.After a worldwide vaccination campaign led to a declaration in 1979 that smallpox had been eradicated, the virus that causes the illness was confined to two research laboratories — one at the Centers for Disease