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What is smallpox and how does the clinical presentation differ from chickenpox?

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Smallpox is one of the most devastating diseases in the history of mankind. Believed to originate more than three millennia in India or Egypt, epidemics caused by smallpox have decimated...

Smallpox eradication: December 9 was the 40th anniversary

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During a press briefing at United Nations Information Service in Geneva, the following was commemorated: Dr. Rosamund Lewis, Head of the Smallpox Secretariat at the World Health Organization (WHO), said...

Thoughts on the eradicator of smallpox: ‘You can argue that he’s may of saved more lives than any other single human being in human history’

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“If you induce a back of the envelope calculations given the hundreds of thousands of people who died every year of smallpox prior to when the campaign was started and looking at it now that its gone,...

Smallpox: ‘You can argue that Henderson may of saved more lives than any other single human being in human history’, Hotez states

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During a recent Outbreak News This Week interview with Blue Marble Health author, Dr. Peter Hotez, I asked the infectious disease expert for his thoughts on the life and accomplishments of the eradicator...