Exercise Mataika: White Paper on response to a smallpox bioterrorism release in the Pacific

• Main Authors: Chandini Raina MacIntyre (Author), David J Heslop (Author), Devina Nand (Author), Craig Schramm (Author), Michael Butel (Author), William Rawlinson (Author), Michael Baker (Author), Tomasz Kiedrzynski (Author), Cassidy Nelson (Author), Alexander Rosewell (Author), Lauasa Fotualii (Author), Kevin Yeo (Author), Jesper Elsgaard (Author), Louise Fonua (Author), John Michael Lane (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of New South Wales, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, with known seed stock retained in two high security Biosafety Level 4 laboratories in the United States and Russia. Experts agree the likelihood of theft from these laboratories is low, and that synthetic creation of smallpox is a theoretical possibility. Un...