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Is smallpox back from the dead?

Laura Hennelly McCarthy examines the potential re-emergence of smallpox as a result of permafrost thawing in Siberia

In front of the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, there stands a statue: three figures in a line, with one kneeling, administering a vaccine to the first person in the queue. The statue commemorates the 30th anniversary of