Can we replicate the historic success of smallpox eradication?
In short: Smallpox remains the only human disease we have completely wiped out. This video explores the creative breakthroughs and innovative solutions that are bringing us closer to eliminating other deadly diseases.
While smallpox stands as our sole victory in total disease eradication, the strategies used to achieve this milestone are now being applied to new frontiers. By leveraging breakthroughs from the smallpox campaign and other inventive scientific approaches, researchers are working to make several other diseases a thing of the past.
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