Commemorating Smallpox Eradication â a legacy of hope, for COVID-19 and other diseases
On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: âThe world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox.â The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3 000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone.  It was ended, thanks to a […]