In 1978, photographer Janet Parker was killed by this virus after a sample of it leaked through air ducts at a research hospital, seeding a mini-outbreak in England. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this deadly virus. Just two years later, in 1980, the WHO declared it had been eradicated.
ANSWER: smallpox virus
[10h] To prevent leaks, research on smallpox or Ebola can now only be conducted in the small number of labs that rate a 4 on this ranking system for the risk of biohazards. Its name is a three-letter initialism.
ANSWER: BSL [or BSL-4; or biosafety level system; prompt on containment levels]
[10m] In 2021, France declared a moratorium on research into these infectious agents after a researcher accidentally injected herself with a contaminated forceps and died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (“CROYTS-felt YAH-kub”) disease.
ANSWER: prions [prompt on misfolded proteins]
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