Smallpox vials turn up in U.S. storage room unexpectedly

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 14:00 in Earth & Climate

A U.S. government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.

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