Report of the World Health Organization Biosafety Inspection of the Variola Virus Maximum Containment Laboratories to the Federal Budgetary Research Institution: State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology “VECTOR” of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being; Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation, 28 January-2 February 2019

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Report of the World Health Organization Biosafety Inspection of the Variola Virus Maximum Containment Laboratories to the Federal Budgetary Research Institution: State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology “VECTOR” of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being; Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation, 28 January-2 February 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 at the Federal Budgetary Research Institution-State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being (VECTOR) in Russia, one of the two WHO-authorized variola virus (causative agent of smallpox) repositories. Since the last inspection in 2016, VECTOR has made significant improvements, with many previous findings addressed and closed. (PDF)