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31 January 2007
SUNS #6180: WHO Board adopts draft smallpox resolution
22 January 2007
Briefing: Destruction of Smallpox Virus Stocks (PDF)
An Update on Developments since the 2006 (59th) World Health Assembly
Related: Elements for the 60th WHA's resolution on destruction of variola virus stocks (PDF)
22 January 2007
Newsletter #1 (2007)
The WHO Executive Board Meeting Begins Today
Smallpox at the 2006 (59th) World Health Assembly
Nuclear Weapons Lab Starts Research with Smallpox Genes
African Leaders Highlight Urgency of Smallpox Stocks Destruction
Another US Bid to Put Smallpox Genes into Other Poxviruses
REPORTS
Report from the 2006 (59th) World Health Assembly (30 May 2006)
WHA Delays Decision on Smallpox Virus Stocks
March 2006 Briefing (PDF)
Update on Destruction of Variola Virus Stocks
Actualización en la Destrucción de Reservas de Virus Variólico
Dernières nouvelles sur la destruction des stocks de virus de la Variole
Report from the 2005 (58th) World Health Assembly
No WHA Endorsement of Genetically Engineered Smallpox Virus
Countries Urge Review of Recommendations and Variola Advisory Committee
Briefing Paper (PDF)
The Genetic Engineering of Smallpox:
WHO’s Retreat from the Eradication of Smallpox Virus and Why it Should be Stopped
Paper summary also available in: Chinese | Deutsch | Español
PAST NEWSLETTERS
2006 Newsletters
Newsletter #3: 3 May 2006 | Newsletter #2: 18 April 2006 | Newsletter #1: 3 April 2006
2005 Newsletters
Newsletter #3: 26 May 2005 | Newsletter #2: 28 April 2005 | Newsletter #1: 19 April 2005
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OTHER PAST ITEMS
Open Letter (10 May 2006)
European Union Health Ministers and European Commission Asked
to Help Put Smallpox Virus Back on a Fast Track to Destruction
News Release (3 April 2006)
Health Assembly Must Stop Dangerous Smallpox Experiments
L’Assemblée Mondiale de la Santé doit interdire les dangereuses expérimentations avec le virus de la variole
ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
This website is the home of an international effort to to prevent the genetic engineering of smallpox and to ensure prompt destruction of all remaining stocks of the live smallpox virus. Here you can learn more about the eradication of smallpox and important steps that governments must take to end the threat posed by this extremely dangerous virus. From April through June of 2005, more than two thousand people from eighty countries used this website to send letters urging the WHO Director-General to put smallpox in history books - instead of the genetic engineering lab. At the World Health Assembly (WHA) in June, 2005, the campaign made its voice felt. But much remains to be done.
While we have successfully increased pressure for the final destruction of smallpox virus, the US and Russia continue to press to expand their risky research with this otherwise eradicated virus. This website is organized by Third World Network and the Sunshine Project and co-sponsored by a dozen other non-governmental organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
ARCHIVES: OTHER MATERIALS FROM 2005
Here are links to resources featured on this website in the past. This information may be dated - please check more recent publications for current information. Website Launch Press Release (April 2005)
International Campaign to Stop Smallpox Genetic Engineering Announced
Also available in: Chinese | Français | Español | Deutsch | Italiano
Notable Quotes
A collection of quotes on smallpox virus destruction Smallpox Eradication: A Political Timeline (2005)
From Destruction to Genetic Modification
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Smallpox in Pictures
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