SPADA

Objectives

• Smallpox introduction

• Development of smallpox clinical diagnostics

• Developing a framework for considering environmental smallpox detection/testing

– 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