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SCIENCE | May 21, 2005

W.H.O. Moves Toward Allowing Smallpox Gene Experiment
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

The World Health Organization moved closer to approving an experiment to manipulate the genes of the smallpox virus for the first time since the disease was eradicated 25 years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/21/science/21smallpox.html?ex=1117771200&en=1d82be9cad21c77b&ei=5070



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