Smallpox Is Declared Eradicated
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe Thirty-third World Health Assembly declared the global eradication of smallpox on 8 May 1980, the date of the resolution.[1]
The World Health Assembly certified that smallpox had been wiped from the earth - the only human disease ever eradicated. The last natural case had been in Somalia in 1977, and the campaign that found it had traced and vaccinated outwards from every case for a decade.
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