CDC: Smallpox Virus Samples Found In Lab Are Live

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CDC: Smallpox Virus Samples Found In Lab Are Live

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/11/smallpox-live_n_5579616.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mDtcHzfH1iUk1md8PmnUcQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/resize/200x200/http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1905967/original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="CDC: Smallpox Virus Samples Found In Lab Are Live" align="left" title="CDC: Smallpox Virus Samples Found In Lab Are Live" border="0" /></a>Earlier this month, scientists found decades-old vials of the smallpox virus in the storage room of a lab near D.C. At the time, it was unclear if any of them were viable samples. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that at least two of the six found are live and infectious. Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980. A few samples exist, but they're kept in secure labs and pose no risk to the public. The vials found in the Maryland lab-- which once belonged to the NIH-- are thought to be from the 1950s. The CDC</p><br clear="all"/>

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