A proposal by a WHO advisory committee to preserve stocks of the smallpox virus in their laboratories for further research, including genetic engineering, was not approved by the World Health Assembly. […]
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As concerns grow over the environmental and human and animal health effects of genetic engineering, governments in some countries are taking action to protect their people and territory. […] An international alliance of NOGs launched a campaign to urge the WHO to reject a proposal that would permit the genetic engineering of smallpox. […] A briefing paper on the campaign by the Sunshine Project and Third World Network to stop the genetic modification of smallpox virus. […] The Independent Science Panel took the FAO to task for the latter’s position on genetic engineering. […] |
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