SYMHC Classics: Eradication of Smallpox

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This 2021 episode covers smallpox, a viral disease that has existed for millennia. But it’s now one of only two diseases that’s been eradicated through human activity, and a global plan was enacted to do it.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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