Editorial: The risk of anthrax and smallpox in Australia
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This article published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001 contains an editorial on Australia's response to the threat of bioterrorist attack using smallpox or anthrax.
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Professor Henderson is a distinguished academic at the Johns Hopkins University, holding an appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. Prof Henderson directed the World Health Organization's global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-1977) and helped initiate WHO's global program of immunisation in 1974. He is currently Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC.
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Henderson DA. Smallpox: Clinical and epidemiological features. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1999;5:537-539.
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