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Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir... by CorrectHorseBat on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:29AM (#30585435)
Smallpox has been eradicated, that's not even virtually nonexistent.

Only risk I see is biological warfare, but why do that with a virus we have a vaccine for?

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Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir... by mschuster91 on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:32AM (#30586538)
There are multiple other scenarios where the virus could become released into the wild again: infection by clearing up old storage sites, a laboratory accident, or some terrorist spending 100k US$. And all of these have happened (although the latter was "just" horse pox).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication

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