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Volume 28, Number 9—September 2022
Dispatch

Sequestration and Destruction of Rinderpest Virus–Containing Material 10 Years after Eradication

Christine M. BudkeComments to Author , Dirk U. Pfeiffer, Bryony A. Jones, Guillaume Fournié, Younjung Kim, Mariana Marrana, and Heather L. Simmons
Author affiliations: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (C.M. Budke); Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station (C.M. Budke, H.L. Simmons); Royal Veterinary College, London, UK (D.U. Pfeiffer, G. Fournié); City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (D.U. Pfeiffer, Y. Kim); Animal and Plant Health Agency, Weybridge, UK (B.A. Jones); University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Y. Kim); World Organisation for Animal Health, Paris, France (M. Marrana)

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Table

Regional institutes with rinderpest virus–containing material, by biosafety level and type, for 2013 and 2021*

Category Africa Asia, Far East, and Oceania Europe Middle East The Americas World
Biologic safety level
2 3/0 1/2 0/0 1/1 1/0 6/3
2+ 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1
3 4/1 9/3 3/3 0/0 2/1 18/8
3+ 0/0 0/0 1/1 0/0 0/0 1/1
4 0/1 0/0 2/0 0/0 0/0 2/1
Unknown
 1/0
 0/0
 0/0
 0/0
 0/0
 1/0
Type
A 0/0 0/1 0/1 0/0 0/1 0/3
B 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1
A/B
 0/1
 0/1
 0/1
 0/0
 0/0
 0/3
Unofficial
 8/1
 10/3
 6/2
 1/1
 3/0
 28/7
Overall 8/2 10/6 6/4 1/1 3/1 28/14

*Values are given as 2013/2021 numbers.

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