NewsSpace DailyIn May 1980, the World Health Organization officially declared that smallpox had been eradicated from human existence — a disease that had killed approximately 300 million people in the twentieth cent
The last person to catch smallpox naturally was a 23-year-old Somali hospital cook named Ali Maow Maalin, who was diagnosed on 26 October 1977 in the town of Merca on Somalia’s Indian Ocean coast. He survived. Approximately 300 million other people, across the preceding 80 years of the 20th century, had not. Smallpox had, for […]
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