Three Creative Ways to Eradicate Diseases
Smallpox is the first and only human disease we've totally wiped out. However, thanks to breakthroughs made while eradicating smallpox and a number of other ...
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♪ Smallpox was a terrible disease. It was often fatal, and even if you survived, you were left with scars where the painful blisters used to be. But thanks to an aggressive eradication campaign, it became the first human disease we totally wiped out, save a few deadly samples kept in labs around the world. So far, it remains the only one we’ve gotten rid of entirely, but we’re getting close on a few more, like polio. And to do that, doctors have had to get creative, and come up with different strategies tailored to each disease. Many diseases that are on the edge of elimination are there thanks to the same kind of preventative measures that knocked out smallpox: vaccines. But the smallpox vaccine wasn’t ideal because it involved getting people actually sick with a different but...
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♪ Smallpox was a terrible disease. It was often fatal, and even if you survived, you were left with scars where the painful blisters used to be. But thanks to an aggressive eradication campaign, it became the first human disease we totally wiped out, save a few deadly samples kept in labs around the world. So far, it remains the only one we’ve gotten rid of entirely, but we’re getting close on a few more, like polio. And to do that, doctors have had to get creative, and come up with different strategies tailored to each disease. Many diseases that are on the edge of elimination are there thanks to the same kind of preventative measures that knocked out smallpox: vaccines. But the smallpox vaccine wasn’t ideal because it involved getting people actually sick with a different but...
