(Image Courtesy Of Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists) An image of the variola virus, which causes smallpox. Researchers working with independent funds resurrected an extinct relative of the virus, the horsepox virus, in a study published in 2018.
In 2018, Canadian academics with pharmaceutical industry funding made a stunning announcement. They had synthesized horsepox, a pathogen that no longer exists in nature and that is closely related to the smallpox virus, variola.
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This article was written by Dr. Gerald Epstein and originally published by the Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists.
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