{"id":35284,"date":"2011-05-15T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/should-we-save-smallpox-a-conversation-with-richard-preston-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:43:34","slug":"should-we-save-smallpox-a-conversation-with-richard-preston-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/should-we-save-smallpox-a-conversation-with-richard-preston-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Should we save smallpox? A conversation with Richard Preston | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cc0cd_smallpox-virus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"283\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Each Friday this month, I&rsquo;m having a conversation about viruses to mark the publication of my new book A Planet of Viruses. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pressblog.uchicago.edu\/2011\/05\/03\/traffic_carl_zimmer_and_w_ian.html\">Last week<\/a>, I talked to virologist Ian Lipkin about the search for new viruses and their potential to alter our behavior. Today, I&rsquo;m delighted to talk with Richard Preston, the author of the Hot Zone and other books on viruses. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pressblog.uchicago.edu\/2011\/05\/12\/traffic_carl_zimmer_and_richar.html\">He and I discuss the fate of smallpox.<\/a> The worst viral killer in the history of civilization is now wiped off the face of the Earth, except for some laboratory stocks. Preston and I take on the question of whether we should now annihilate it. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pressblog.uchicago.edu\/2011\/05\/12\/traffic_carl_zimmer_and_richar.html\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MrffyQVnyO6v3cwDQ4Q4itZP_WM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ea93f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MrffyQVnyO6v3cwDQ4Q4itZP_WM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ea93f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ea93f_EV6Tvo22S9o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ea93f_nSPTkIYgClE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday this month, I&rsquo;m having a conversation about viruses to mark the publication of my new book A Planet of Viruses. Last week, I talked to virologist Ian Lipkin about the search for new viruses and their potential to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/should-we-save-smallpox-a-conversation-with-richard-preston-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}