The smallpox virus destroyed?

At the end of this month, Ministers of health will meet to discuss the fate of the two vials with the virus of smallpox. Specimens of the dreaded virus are stored in two laboratories, one in Russia and one in USA.

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Currently a closely guarded secret stock of virus is used for a narrow range of research to create vaccines and drugs. However, existing risks in the form of terrorism, accidents in laboratories and other accidents is very high.

Therefore, the countries members of the world health organization long ago agreed that strains of smallpox should be destroyed. The question about the exact date of destruction has been repeatedly postponed.

The enemy is the destruction of the virus say that more needs to be done in terms of developing effective drugs. Their opponents declare that there is a new generation of vaccines, potential developments, deciphered the genetic code of smallpox. Moreover, synthetic biology allows you to create a version of smallpox from scratch, if necessary.

Recall that smallpox was defeated by a man more than 30 years ago. Only in the 20th century it killed 300 million people.

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Source: nauka24news.ru/