Let’s put on our thinking caps, everybody. 🧢 June 4, 2021: FDA approved Tembexa (brincidofovir) to treat smallpox. Although the World Health Organization declared smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease, eradicated in 1980, there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon.November 4, 2021: Bill Gates has warned that governments must prepare for future pandemics and smallpox terror attacks by investing billions in research and development.Fast forward to yesterday-November 18, 2021: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the discovery of vials that are labeled “smallpox” at a laboratory in Pennsylvania, the health agency said on Thursday. The frozen vials “were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine research in Pennsylvania,” Belsie González, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., said in an email on Thursday.
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