The Case for More Pox Research
ast year, when news broke that David H. Evans, a Canadian molecular virologist, and his colleagues made horsepox—the close cousin of smallpox—from scratch, people : What for? Before it was eradicated, in 1980, in one of the major public health triumphs of the last in in January, to make smallpox from scratch, and use it as a weapon. As almost all of the global population is unvaccinated, its reintroduction would be devastating.
