Volume 17, Number 4—April 2011
Policy Review
Should Remaining Stockpiles of Smallpox Virus (Variola) Be Destroyed?
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Figure 1. One-year-old child on day 10 of a smallpox infection; his face is covered with painful lesions that are beginning to scab. Photograph courtesy of the Centers for Disease and Prevention Public Health Image Library; by Charles Farmer, Jr., 1962.
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