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The World Health Assembly declares smallpox eradicated

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Following two years of certification work by a global commission, the Thirty-third World Health Assembly declares that smallpox has been eradicated worldwide. It remains the only human disease ever deliberately driven to extinction, and the clearest single demonstration that a cause of death can be removed permanently rather than postponed.

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  2. Following two years of certification work by a global commission, the Thirty-third World Health Assembly declares that smallpox has been eradicated worldwide. It remains the only human disease ever deliberately driven to extinction, and the clearest single demonstration that a cause of death can be removed permanently rather than postponed.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Vaccination
  5. World Health Organization
  6. The World Health Assembly declares smallpox eradicated
  7. Connections
  8. World Health Organization
  9. World Health Organization
  10. Vaccination
  11. The World Health Assembly declares smallpox eradicated
  12. The World Health Assembly declares smallpox eradicated
  13. The rise in life expectancy at birth
  14. Edward Jenner
  15. Jenner inoculates James Phipps with cowpox
  16. The last naturally acquired smallpox case begins, at Marka
  17. The World Health Assembly declares smallpox eradicated
  18. Evidence
  19. Supports the eradication of smallpox, its declaration date and the identification of the last naturally acquired case at Marka, Somalia, in October 1977. V55 verification basis: neither the report nor the resolution text was retrieved in this session.
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