Immune-suppression must while planning for smallpox outbreak

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Unprecedented levels of immune-suppression in countries like Australia and the US must be considered in planning for the real risk of smallpox re-emerging in the world, an expert in infectious diseases has warned. According to a University of New South Wales professor, Raina Maclntyre, "Smallpox was eradicated in 1980 but in 2017, Canadian scientists created a smallpox-like virus in a lab using just mail order DNA READ MORE