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Briggs and Rutty: Why we should declare a formal ‘Smallpox Eradication Day’

On Dec. 9, 1979, the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication declared its job complete. This marked the end of a scourge that lasted thousands of years and killed more people than all the wars in recorded history.

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