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Others, however, maintain a sense of reverence for the disease. "This is a virus that wreaked terrible havoc on the human population, and efforts to control and eradicate that disease were heroic," says Inger Damon, chief of the poxvirus and rabies branch at the CDCs Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology. "I dont think you ever become immune to that sense of awe."