Periodicals>Magazine Article:  Dixon, Bernard (10/01/1978), Endangered Species - Life, Omni Magazine, October 1978, Retrieved on 2012-12-25
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    25 DEC 2012

     Should Smallpox be Made Extinct?

    A few decades from now, we may make a brutal,calculated decision to totally eradicate a particular form of life. We already are 99 percent of the way along that path. Even conservationists, who publicly deplore the extinction of innumerable species of animals and plants through neglect, ignorance, or financial greed, have applauded this conscious, murderous act to be carried out by a UN agency. I speak of smallpox virus. Since 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been systematica...
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    1978 article on the state of the smallpox virus, driven to extinction by the United Nations, asks whether it should be preserved in deep freeze for science?

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