The Eradication of Smallpox
Nearly two centuries after the creation of the vaccine by Edward Jenner, smallpox was eradicated in 1977. On May 8th, 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland officially declared that smallpox no longer existed on Earth. "The world and all its people have won freedom from smallpox, which was the most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since the earliest times, leaving death, blindness, and disfigurement in its wake, " a spokesperson from WHO stated. [46]
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