Editing Bioterrorism (section)

=== Lack of international standards on public health experiments ===
Tom Inglesy, the CEO and director of the Center for Health Security at the [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Inglesby, MD |publisher=Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |url=https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/inglesby/}}</ref> and an internationally recognized expert on public health preparedness, pandemic and emerging infectious disease said in 2017 that the lack of an internationally standardized approval process that could be used to guide countries in conducting public health experiments for resurrecting a disease that has already been eradicated increases the risk that the disease could be used in bioterrorism. This was in reference to the lab synthesis of [[Orthopoxvirus|horsepox]] in 2017 by researchers at the [[University of Alberta]]. The researchers recreated horsepox, an extinct cousin of the [[Smallpox|smallpox virus]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/how-canadian-researchers-reconstituted-extinct-poxvirus-100000-using-mail-order-dna|title=science}}</ref> in order to research new ways to treat cancer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://homelandprepnews.com/featured/23673-bioterrorism-threats-require-common-global-experimentation-oversight-expert-says/|title=Bioterrorism threats require common global experimentation oversight, expert says|last=Riley|first=Kim|date=August 10, 2017|work=Homeland Preparedness News|access-date=January 15, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>