Smallpox killed billions of people on this planet.

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

We've seen the eradication of smallpox.

Smallpox early detection, early response.

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.

Images of limb regeneration and faces filled with smallpox

I wanted to show you the stages of smallpox.

This guy is like a carrier of smallpox.

Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.

OK, now smallpox is an extremely distressing illness.

We declared smallpox eradicated in 1980.

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Larry Brilliant Smallpox was the worst disease in history.

But in that year, smallpox exploded throughout India.

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

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

Poliomyelitis has been eradicated completely.

We are determined to uproot their causes.

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

The smallpox vaccine was developed in 1798 by Edward Jenner.

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

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Should it be a mastectomy? Should it be a lumpectomy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

No incentive to report smallpox.

We have to try to eradicate the roots of all hostilities.

(b) Eradicating poverty and improving the quality of human life

(b) eradicating poverty and improving the quality of human life

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.

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.

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

He went there after the death of his wife of smallpox and brought his two young children.

And when they did, they took smallpox to 10 other countries and reignited the epidemic.