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In 1974 WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler predicted the eradication of this disease; by 1980 it was gone |
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During a 1721 epidemic in Boston, Zabdiel Boylston gave the 1st Amer. inoculations against this now-eradicated disease |
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In 1978 Janet Parker, a worker at Birmingham Medical School, became the last person to die of this disease |
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2013-01-18 |
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Edward Jenner came up with the first successful vaccine, one that prevented this deadly disease |
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2012-01-03 |
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(Cheryl of the Clue Crew, at the Smithsonian Institution, holds up a small needle.) By dispensing just enough vaccine, thebifurcated needleis the only medical instrument to eradicate a disease, this one eliminated in 1979 |
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Due to successful vaccines, this viral disease was finally declared extinct in 1980 |
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1992-11-17 |
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By one estimate, 60 million people died in the 18th century of this disease, now eliminated thru vaccination |
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MEDICINE |
1988-02-09 |
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In 1977, the world's last naturally-occurring case of this disease occurred in Somalia |
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1987-04-30 |
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A vaccine developed in 1796 made this disease the 1st conquered by man |
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1985-05-06 |
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