WHO defers fixing date on destroying live smallpox

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

GENEVA (Reuters) - A decision on when to destroy the last known stocks of live smallpox was put off for a further three years at the World Health Organization's annual meeting on Tuesday in the latest stage in a debate that has lasted decades.

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