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Should smallpox be destroyed forever?

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What should happen to the very last samples of smallpox virus left on the planet?

Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, and Professor Gareth Williams, author of the Angel of Death: the Story of Smallpox, discuss whether they should be saved or destroyed.


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