History of Disease

Official Repositories

Variola exists officially in only two repositories, The Collaborating Centres. The two centers are The Maximum Containment Laboratory at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia and the Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow, Russia. The WHO forbids any laboratory from possessing more than 10% of the DNA of Variola, and no one is officially allowed to do experiments with smallpox DNA. (15:79)

 

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