Still with death, what about one of the world’s greatest killers?
Eradicated from the world, the smallpox virus is held in two laboratories.
Should it be wiped out completely? Or does our desire to save species extend to
a virus capable of maiming and killing us? BBC 2’s Horizon series considers the
question in “Smallpox on Death Row” on Thursday, 27 March.
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