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Science 3 January 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5603, p. 43
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5603.43c
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Henderson (right) cooling his heels.

CREDIT: PAUL HARING

Not Burundi. The scientist who arguably knows the most about combating smallpox almost missed President George W. Bush's long-awaited vaccination policy announcement last month because he could not get past White House security guards. Clutching his official briefing book, Donald A. Henderson (above right), 74 and coatless against an icy wind, watched reporters walk past as he waited more than 20 minutes for his security clearance. "If the government of Burundi had worked like this," grumbled Henderson, recalling his leadership of the World Health Organization's campaign in the 1960s and '70s, "we would never have eradicated smallpox."

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