Smallpox Smallpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the Variola virus.

No incentive to report smallpox.

Smallpox early detection, early response.

It wasn't just India that had smallpox deities smallpox deities were prevalent all over the world.

Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.

We've seen the eradication of smallpox.

We declared smallpox eradicated in 1980.

And they caught smallpox in the one remaining place that had smallpox, and they went home to die.

Smallpox eradication Smallpox virus was a major cause of death in the 20th century, killing about 300 million people.

Smallpox Smallpox was the first disease, and so far the only infectious disease of humans, to be eradicated by deliberate intervention.

OK, now smallpox is an extremely distressing illness.

Smallpox killed billions of people on this planet.

But in that year, smallpox exploded throughout India.

This guy is like a carrier of smallpox.

Images of limb regeneration and faces filled with smallpox

I wanted to show you the stages of smallpox.

Larry Brilliant Smallpox was the worst disease in history.

The smallpox vaccine was developed in 1798 by Edward Jenner.

But smallpox eradication was hard it was very, very hard.

The key to eradicating smallpox was early detection, early response.

Day seven, they show the classic scars of smallpox umbilication.

In that year, there were 34 countries affected with smallpox.

So, how we eradicated smallpox was max vaccination wouldn't work.

And in 1980, we declared the globe free of smallpox.

Just as we once eliminated smallpox, so can we eliminate others.

The smallpox virus devastated numerous societies throughout history before its eradication.

Smallpox and measles viruses are among the oldest that infect humans.

By 1948, smallpox vaccination was no longer compulsory in the UK.

We had Dr. Larry Brilliant talking about how we eradicated smallpox.

When you read the biblical plague of boils, that was smallpox.

Pharaoh Ramses the Fifth, whose picture is here, died of smallpox.

There are other kinds of smallpox that are not like that.

Flat smallpox, which killed 100 percent of people who got it.

I've probably had 50 women die. They all had hemorrhagic smallpox.

And India was the place where smallpox made its last stand.

But smallpox was the fourth disease that was intended for eradication.

I got to see the last case of killer smallpox in the world.

Here we come down with the eradication of smallpox, better education, health service.

Sovereigns killed by smallpox because it shows you to be the richest and the strongest, and to be kings and queens of the world, did not protect you from dying of smallpox.

Images of limb regeneration and faces filled with smallpox 21 percent of the conference.

Among the plethora of diseases that caused childhood death were measles, influenza and smallpox.

Along with measles and influenza, smallpox was taken to the Americas by the Spanish.

In the Summer of Love, in 1967, two million people, children, died of smallpox.

To eradicate smallpox, we had to gather the largest United Nations army in history.

But to see smallpox from the perspective of a sovereign is the wrong perspective.