Scientists Using Monkeys For Smallpox Research

July 16, 2002

Although smallpox is one of humankind's oldest scourges, it's almost shocking how little we know about it, says David Relman, a Stanford University microbiologist.
Tuesday's WALL STREET JOURNAL reports: Tests on monkeys infected with smallpox last month could help fill that gap. Relman is working with a team of governmental animal researchers, who are giving smallpox to macaque monkeys with the hope of finding ways to outmaneuver the contagious virus, using early diagnosis, antiviral drugs, and novel high-tech tools.
The experiments, raising a furor among animal-rights activists and some public-health school deans, began last month in a high-security lab at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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