Year: 1998
Type: editorial
Abstract: More than 20 years have passed since the last case of smallpox was confirmed and 18 years since the International Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication of the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that the global eradication of smallpox had been achieved.1,2 Now, new dilemmas confront the world. Could recent outbreaks of human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997)3–5 represent the return of another form of smallpox?6 Could variola (smallpox) virus be used as a weapon of biologic terrorism? And what are the implications of the decision of . . .
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Authors: Joel G. Breman, D.A. Henderson
Institution: National Institutes of Health
Language: English
Subfield: Virology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2337610061