There are many examples of top down programs, often run by governments or large inter governmental organizations (IGOs) many of these are disease specific or issue specific, such as HIV control or Smallpox Eradication.

Vaccines have eradicated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge of eradication, and saved millions of children from measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other deadly and disabling diseases.

Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.

If we look at the current world health situation, although smallpox has been eradicated and polio is on the verge of being eliminated, there are other diseases  often associated with poverty that continue to take a heavy human toll, especially in developing countries.

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

The smallpox vaccine was developed in 1798 by Edward Jenner.

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

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

Judicial reforms are, in turn, helping to root out corruption.

A great smallpox epidemic in the 18th century killed around a third of the population.

In 1519, an epidemic of smallpox broke out in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in Mexico.

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

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

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They point to the successes of aid the eradication of smallpox, and the distribution of tens of millions of malaria bed nets and antiretrovirals.

This Gordian knot needs to be cut, not untied.

The Government has developed a Pandemic Influenza (Pan Flu) Response Plan and an Airport Contingency Plan for Smallpox and has also contracted the development of an overall Territorial Smallpox Emergency Response Plan, which will complement the Pan Flu Plan and be the template for other extreme disease related health emergencies.

In early 1687, within a matter of days, George and his two young daughters caught smallpox, and Anne suffered another miscarriage.

Parker was an employee of the University of Birmingham who worked in the same building as Bedson's smallpox laboratory.

The State of Vietnam reiterates its strong determination to eliminate these evils.

You had to find every single case of smallpox in the world at the same time and draw a circle of immunity around it.

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

Of the many diseases of humans that were found to be caused by viruses in the 20th century one, smallpox, has been eradicated.

But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

The eradication of poverty tops the priority list of the Benin Government.

Failure to comply with that article would leave women under the continued domination of men. Attitudes must be changed, and cultural patterns which discriminated against women must be eliminated.

Investing in the people of Africa is another step towards eradicating poverty and building peace and stability.

And as we did that, the number of reported cases in the world dropped to zero, and in 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox.

Successes came quickly by 1970 smallpox was no longer endemic in western Africa, nor, by 1971, in Brazil.

Clearly, the biggest challenges facing the developing countries are poverty eradication and financing for development.

Eliminating such misconduct is therefore integral to the success of peacekeeping.

Eradicating polio will be a milestone on our path to realizing this vision.

Of course, the enormity of the Holocaust ought to have eradicated anti Semitism for all time.

Indeed, by taking the right actions now, we can eradicate starvation.

(c) The United Nations to strengthen poverty eradication as a priority throughout the United Nations system

Important progress has been made towards the goal of eradicating poverty, but we need to do better.

The horrible truth is that failure to eradicate the root causes of terrorism is almost certain to extend the Age of Terrorism, it is not clear that they really can be eradicated.

But, in the end, we succeeded, and the last case of smallpox this little girl, Rahima Banu Barisal, in Bangladesh when she coughed or breathed, and the last virus of smallpox left her lungs and fell on the dirt and the sun killed that last virus, thus ended a chain of transmission of history's greatest horror.

And he made an outrageous prediction that smallpox would be eradicated, and that this was God's gift to humanity because of the hard work of dedicated scientists.

In 1832, the federal government of the United States established a smallpox vaccination program for Native Americans ( The Indian Vaccination Act of 1832 ).

This coincided with drought associated with an el Nino oscillation, human epidemics of smallpox, and in several countries, intense war.

Fears of bioterrorism using smallpox virus and the possible need for the virus in the development of drugs to treat the infection have put an end to this plan.

In this case, splenectomy may be considered, as well as other immunosuppressive drugs.

We developing countries share the common goals of eradicating poverty and alleviating human suffering.