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Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by bbatha on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:30PM (#26134780)
It’s substantially more complicated than that smallpox samples keep turning up in the US [1][2]. Who knows how many samples were lost in the chaos of the fall of the Soviet Union. Smallpox was in every country on earth until relatively recently simply destroying samples isn’t enough. Hanging onto them in case we need a new vaccine is absolutely prudent.

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/cdc-found-pox/ https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/scab-story

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Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by bondarchuk on Sunday February 14, 2021 @03:58PM (#26136202)
If there is an actual outbreak that we need a vaccine for, we can just get new samples from the infected, right?
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