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Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Mar. 03 (ANI): 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, "Smallpoxwas eradicated in 1980 but in 2017, Canadian scientists created a smallpox-like virus in a lab using just mail order DNA".
"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", continued Professor Maclyntyre. READ MORE
