Should the smallpox virus be kept or destroyed?

[Associate Justice PiT]

We have the technology to recreate it if actually needed, so at the very least all samples of the more virulent variola major strain should be destroyed.

     I am curious, what would recreating an extinct virus look like? I am not an expert on virology, but my instinct would be to keep the virus around in case it became necessary to produce fresh vaccine in the future.