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Disease and human history: Should we destroy a killer virus? (Disease prevention).(Brief Article)
scientists are now debating whether they should destroy the last remaining samples of the virus that causes smallpox. Smallpox once killed millions of people around the world. The disease has since been eliminated. The last recorded case of smallpox occurred in 1978, when the virus accidentally leaked out of a lab in England and infected a photographer working in another room. The photographer later died.
Since then, the only remaining specimens of the smallpox virus have been kept in two closely guarded laboratories-one in Atlanta, Georgia, and one in Moscow, Russia. Some scientists want the virus specimens saved. They think continued studies of the virus might help researchers uncover better treatments for other diseases, including AIDS.
But other scientists want the viruses destroyed. They fear that someday the virus could accidentally find its way out of a lab and begin killing people again. If scientists decide to destroy the virus, it would be the first time humans have ever purposefully destroyed another form of life.
James Phipps: Boy "Guinea Pig"
James Phipps made an important contribution to medicine in 1796 when famed researcher Edward Jenner injected the eight-year-old with cowpox virus. Cowpox virus is similar to smallpox virus but causes a milder form of disease.
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