title: Is it time to destroy the smallpox virus?
authors.affiliation: Director Emeritus, National Hospital Organization, Kumamoto Medical Center, Kumamoto 861-8068, Japan.
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Arita
authors.affiliation: Executive Director, Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA. dfrancis@gsid.org.
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Francis
mesh_terms: D018070:Biological Specimen Banks; D054045:Biological Warfare Agents; D060740:Disease Eradication; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012426:Russia; D012899:Smallpox / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000821:virology; D014481:United States; D012901:Variola virus; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D054045:Biological Warfare Agents