This claim is will be judged true if at least 100 deaths from smallpox or a man-made pathogen or virus that borrows genetic material from smallpox between 2001-09-01 and 2010-01-01 are reported by the World Health Organization or Centers for Disease Control.
Background: Some authors have been claiming that it is now possible that a terrorist may use smallpox as a biological weapon.
Smallpox is officially "eradicated" but Russia and the US both have some samples of the virus-as may some other countries
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