Smallpox may be gone but U.S. should better prepare for its return, report says | Science

Smallpox is still the only human disease to have been fully eradicated. However, the risk of reemergence isn’t fully nonzero, says CEID director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia who served on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)‘s committee that wrote a government-requested report on smallpox preparedness. Read more from Science.