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D.A. Henderson helped eradicate smallpox. He also used to keep it in his fridge
I had called the legendary disease detective for a quick quote.
It was July 2014, and a government scientist cleaning out a laboratory storage room at the National Institutes of Health's Bethesda, Maryland, campus had stumbled across decades-old vials of smallpox. It marked the first time the lethal virus had been discovered