Smallpox stockpile to last 5 more years, U.S. says

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

The last known stockpiles of the smallpox virus won't be destroyed anytime soon, U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sibelius says, in part out of fear that one of the world's deadliest diseases could be used as a bioweapon.

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