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The Eradication of Smallpox

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Global Eradication of Smallpox

In places like india, small pox vaccination had been a routine part of the public health service since 19 forty seven. Animal rights activists and anti vivisectionists objected to their use. When methods progressed to using tissue, cultures, mistrust of science led people to object to this method as well. So that is how smallpox was finally eradicated. It does still exist in a couple of labs. There've been ongoing conversations about destroying those remaining stocks, and that it keeps getting postponed. Unless the carter center programme successfully eradicates guinea worm disease in the immediate future, we don't have any more eradications of hesas dcover on the show when i need an

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