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But when was the last time you worried about smallpox, a disease that killed half a billion people last century and no longer is with us?
You can see, with independence, literacy improved and vaccinations started, smallpox was eradicated, hygiene was improved, and things got better.
From 1950 comes a neat thriller about a couple smuggling diamonds from abroad and also the contagious disease smallpox.
The city's health authorities acted quickly to isolate sufferers and contain the virus, enacting a free vaccination campaign that saw over six million New Yorkers immunised against smallpox.
Evelyn who smuggled some stolen jewels into the country from Cuba also smuggled in smallpox.
Buckwheat convinces him to have the gang take care of him and call the dog smallpox because of his spots.
With simple and inexpensive methods, we have eradicated deadly diseases such as polio and smallpox.
Technology has eliminated diseases like smallpox and has all but eradicated other, like polio; enabled space exploration; sped up transportation; and opened new vistas of opportunity for finance, entertainment, and much else.
For many in the field of public health, the greatest triumph achieved by medicine in this century was the eradication of smallpox.
In 1980, smallpox became the first disease in people to be successfully eradicated, and there were prior unsuccessful campaigns against hookworm, yaws, yellow fever, and malaria.
In fact, smallpox is the deadliest disease known to humanity; until Edward Jenner developed the vaccine in 1796, it was the leading cause of death in Europe.
The comparative docility of infectious diseases like smallpox has contributed to a degree of complacency about the magnitude of the risks of refusing vaccination.
At the time, smallpox was killing as many as two million people, and infecting another 15 million, each year.
In just over a decade, smallpox became the first – and, so far, the only – infectious human disease ever to be fully eradicated.
It took 130,000 trained health workers 20 exhausting months, but they eliminated the scourge of smallpox that had tormented India for millennia.
Finally, in 1980, the world was officially free of smallpox.
As Foege has pointed out, the eradication of smallpox proves that “global efforts are possible.”
The ecological challenges we now face are matters of public health and welfare, just as smallpox was.
The first waves of European colonization caused a calamitous depopulation of indigenous societies through violence and the introduction of infectious diseases like smallpox and measles, to which the natives had no immunity.
So did the eradication of smallpox.
Amerindians were ravaged by illnesses that the Spanish conquistadors brought to Mexico and South America; the “stout Cortez” of John Keats’s poem was accompanied by killer diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus.
But the laundry was carrying smallpox.
For example, during the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union both supported a United Nations program that eradicated smallpox.
We cooperate across vast distances, working together on projects too great for any individual, or country, to complete on their own – such as eradicating smallpox from the face of the Earth.
From smallpox and the Evil Eye, a wasteful marriage-feast, and the kindness of my co-wife may the gods protect my son.
Sick of the smallpox at his age!
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