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A Welcome Extinction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Frank Fenner
Frank Fenner
Affiliation:
Chairman Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication, World Health Organization; John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra City, ACT 2601, Australia; formerly Director, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University.
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Short Communications: Reports, Comments, News, Notes
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1980 , pp. 174 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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* In response to our inquiry about the certainty of this, Professor Fenner explained (in litt. 10 July 1980): ‘Smallpox is a disease, and the disease has been eradicated, even though the virus is still preserved in a few laboratories.’—Ed.

* See top footnote on page 173 and the WHO account following it; also footnote on page 177.—Ed.