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"Smallpox was eradicated in 1980 but in 2017 Canadian scientists created a smallpox-like virus in a lab using just mail-order DNA," said UNSW Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Raina MacIntyre. "In 2018, these same scientists published a step-by-step method to create a pox virus in a lab, making the threat of smallpox re-emergence even greater.
"Experts have long feared this scenario, and it is now a reality. READ MORE