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Commemorating Smallpox Eradication – a legacy of hope for COVID-19 and other diseases

May 14, 2020

On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: ‘The world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox.’  The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3 000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone.

Read more here: https://worldhealthorganization.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/d/79608C701352D75F2540EF23F30FEDED/0E1BB089696BD24784E5AAD5A6C37FC6?fbclid=IwAR3GNuj9s5nG3ZWNFjHx6n1m3qo0fnwND8B6tI0ams-1Au5jTInWUK_oUVc

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