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Volume 346:1262-1263 April 25, 2002 Number 17 Next

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This issue of the Journal contains more information about smallpox than I hope you will ever need. Smallpox was eradicated as a naturally occurring disease over 20 years ago. Thus, any new case of smallpox would have to be the result of human misadventure, either planned or unplanned, involving the laboratory stocks of the virus that were retained in the United States and the former Soviet Union when the disease was contained. Is smallpox a threat to our health? At the present time, there is no way to know. If smallpox virus (see figure) is in the hands of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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