A cluster of variola viruses viewed under an electron microscope. Strains of the variola virus cause smallpox disease. Photo: © Callista Images/Corbis Smallpox was ...

last week came across a startling discovery: vials labeled "variola" — in other words, smallpox. Under international convention, there are supposed to be only two stashes of this deadly virus ...

The fact that Vector is one of only two places in the world that stockpiles Smallpox—the other ... The Vector facility has been under the microscope before. Fifteen years ago, a scientist ...

"So I gently moved his head aside so I could look down the microscope and there were brick-shaped particles that are characteristics of the smallpox virus. "He was horrified, because there was ...

“Although they fought on opposite sides of the trenches, the Union and Confederate forces shared a common enemy: smallpox,” writes ... a single stethoscope or microscope until after the ...

They add that it could also raise fears among allies and adversaries that the United States, under a veil of secrecy, might weaponize the smallpox virus. “I’ve been in that lab,” said Thomas R.