Report from the World Health Organization Biosafety Inspection of the Variola Virus Maximum Containment Laboratories to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 20-24 May 2019

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Report from the World Health Organization Biosafety Inspection of the Variola Virus Maximum Containment Laboratories to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 20-24 May 2019

12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 12/2019. This 12-page report summarizes the World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts' biosafety and biosecurity inspection in May 2019 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the two World Health Organization authorized variola virus (causative agent of smallpox) repositories. Since the last inspection in 2017, CDC has made significant improvements, with many previous findings addressed and closed. (PDF)