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Objectives
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Smallpox introduction
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Development of smallpox clinical diagnostics
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Developing a framework for considering
environmental smallpox detection/testing
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Results of 2014 Standard Method Performance
Requirements for Detection and Identification of
Variola virus
DNA in Aerosol Collection Filters
and/or Liquids
SMALLPOX HISTORY AND
BACKGROUND
Smallpox disease elimination and eradication
Variola virus
elimination and (?) eradication