Smallpox killed billions of people on this planet.

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

But the third challenge we have and probably even bigger one, the biggest challenge is that, in contrast to smallpox where you could always see your enemy every single person almost who was infected with smallpox had this telltale rash.

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

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

We have three different strains of Agarikon mushrooms that were highly active against poxviruses.

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

Every time we did a house to house search, we had a spike in the number of reports of smallpox.