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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