UN puts off destroying last smallpox viruses

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 03:31 in Health & Medicine

Health ministers from around the world agreed Tuesday to put off setting a deadline to destroy the last known stockpiles of the smallpox virus for three more years, rejecting a U.S. plan that had called for a five-year delay.

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