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Killing a killer: what next for smallpox?
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Killing a killer: what next for smallpox?
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The author is an advisor for the WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research and is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of
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This 1974 photo of a young villager in the Rangpur district of northeastern Bangladesh depicts one of the last known infections of a human with variola major virus. (Source: Jean Roy, Emory Global Health Institute, from the CDC Public Health Image Library at http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp .)
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