The Eradication of Smallpox
Learn more about humanity’s deadliest disease
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
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Show Notes
On May 8, 1980, officials from the World Health Organization announced that smallpox, the disease which had ravaged humanity across the world for millennia, had been eradicated. Over the last century before the eradication of smallpox, it is estimated to have killed half a billion people. Learn more about humanity’s deadliest disease and how it was eradicated on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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