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People with weakened immune system in US and Australia must be considered in planning for the real risk of smallpox re-emerging in the world, an expert of infectious diseases has warned.
Smallpox was eradicated in 1980 but in 2017, Canadian scientists created a smallpox-like virus in a lab using just mail order DNA", says UNSW Sydney Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Raina MacIntyre. "Now 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. READ MORE