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Member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO), meeting in
Geneva, have voted to postpone for a further three years a decision on
whether to destroy the last remaining stocks of the deadly smallpox
virus.
Smallpox was eradicated in 1979 but two stocks of live smallpox virus remain.
For years the debate over what to do with them has raged. In Geneva developing countries argued it was high time to destroy all known samples of a virus which in the past claimed millions of lives.
But
the United States and Russia, the two countries which hold the virus
samples, wanted to keep them for at least another five years saying
that if smallpox ever re-emerged, either by accident or even deliberately, the samples could be needed to create a vaccine.
That argument seemed finally after days of division to sway member states, and they approved a compromise - postponing a decision on destroying the virus samples for another three years.
And so the fate of
one of the world's deadliest viruses is still not decided and the
debate over whether the world is safer with it, or without it, will
continue.
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was eradicated
was destroyed and is no longer a danger to public health around the world
has raged
has continued with strong opinions on either side
high time
an appropriate and right thing to do
samples
small amounts of the virus used for research
re-emerged
came back
deliberately
not as an accident but on purpose
to sway
to persuade
a compromise
a decision which everyone agreed on but is not really what either side wanted
postponing
delaying
the fate of
the future of
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