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dc.contributor.authorRourke, MF
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-01T23:29:01Z
dc.date.available2020-03-01T23:29:01Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1320-159X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/391866
dc.description.abstractSince the eradication of smallpox was declared in 1980, debate has ensued over what to do with the remaining stocks of the causative agent, variola virus. For more than three decades the World Health Organization has resolved to destroy the virus isolates, now maintained in high-security laboratories in the Russian Federation and the United States, and each time the deadline has been deferred. The legal facets of this debate have been largely overlooked. As genetic resources, all viruses fall within the scope of the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that provides for “the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of genetic resources”. This article examines the possible ownership scenarios for variola viruses and concludes that the conservation principles of the CBD and the ambiguous sovereign status of individual isolates may preclude the destruction of the world’s remaining variola stocks.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherThomson Reuters
dc.publisher.urihttp://sites.thomsonreuters.com.au/journals/category/journals/journal-of-law-and-medicine/
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom429
dc.relation.ispartofpageto447
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Law and Medicine
dc.relation.ispartofvolume25
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental and resources law
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational and comparative law
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiosecurity science and invasive species ecology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSynthetic biology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4802
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4803
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode410202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode310113
dc.subject.keywordsSmallpox
dc.subject.keywordsAccess and Benefit-Sharing
dc.subject.keywordsConvention on Biological Diversity
dc.subject.keywordsVirus
dc.subject.keywordsResource Sovereignty
dc.titleNever Mind the Science, Here’s the Convention on Biological Diversity: Viral Sovereignty in the Smallpox Destruction Debate
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRourke, M, Never Mind the Science, Here’s the Convention on Biological Diversity: Viral Sovereignty in the Smallpox Destruction Debate, Journal of Law and Medicine, 25 (2), pp.429-447, 2018
dc.date.updated2020-02-25T00:55:39Z
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