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Smallpox Virus Information

Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus (1999) - A very detailed complete online book about smallpox. From the Openbook section of the National Academy Press http://books.nap.edu/books/0309064414/html/index.html

The US Government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web resource about Smallpox http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/index.asp

World Health Organization (WHO) Communicable Disease Suveillance and Response (CSR) Smallpox information http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/smallpox/

MEDLINEplus Smallpox resource http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smallpox.html

"BBC News" web pages about Smallpox: Analysis: Disease as a weapon (7th January 2003), Bush to get smallpx jab (13th December 2002), Bush backs smallpox jab for all (12 December 2002), Israel readies for Iraq conflict (3rd December 2002), Public may force smallpox U-turn (3rd December 2002), Key staff to get smallpox jabs (2nd December 2002), BBC Q&A about smallpox (2nd December 2002), Mass smallpox vaccination prepared (9th October 2002), Smallpox vaccine 'could kill hundreds' (8th May 2002).

CNN info and News Stories about Smallpox: L.A. County begins smallpox vaccinations (30th January 2003), Smallpox vaccine rollout questioned (29th january 2003), Volunteers get smallpox vaccinations (24th January 2003), Volunteers prepare for smallpox vaccinations (24th January 2003), Government begins shipping smallpox vaccine (22nd January 2003), Bush 'great' after smallpox vaccine (22 December 2002), Bush gets smallpox vaccine (21 December 2002), Germany adopts smallpox measures (20 December 2002), What is SMALLPOX VACCINE.


Structures from The Protein Data Bank (PDB) which is operated by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
H.M. Berman, J. Westbrook, Z. Feng, G. Gilliland, T.N. Bhat, H. Weissig, I.N. Shindyalov, P.E. Bourne: The Protein Data Bank. Nucleic Acids Research, 28 pp. 235-242 (2000).

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