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Invite Friends   From the Editor's Desk How deadly pathogens have escaped the lab- over and over again Research into dangerous viruses and bacteria is important, but for the deadliest pathogens, it’s not clear the benefits are worth the risks. Around 500 million people died of smallpox in the century before it was annihilated. But in 1978, the disease cropped back up - in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. Janet Parker was a photographer at Birmingham Medical School. When she developed a horrifying rash, doctors initially brushed it off as chicken pox. After all, everyone knew that smallpox had been chased out of the world - right? Parker got worse and was admitted to the hospital, where testing determined that she had smallpox after all. She died of it a few weeks later. How did she get a disease that was supposed to have been eradicated? Continued here TradeBriefs: What's important, not just what's popular! 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