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Monday, March 10, 2014

Will climate change bring back SMALLPOX? Siberian corpses could ooze contagious virus if graveyards thaw out, claim scientists

Will climate change bring back SMALLPOX? Siberian corpses could ooze contagious virus if graveyards thaw out, claim scientists | Mail Online: "It was one of the world’s most feared diseases that covered a person’s body in painful pus-filled spots.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1979 and was one of the world's most-feared diseases. It covers the body in a painful rash (pictured)

And scientists fear that smallpox, which was eradicated in 1979, could re-emerge from the most unlikely of places – defrosting corpses."

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