Alarming Diseases and their vaccines: Three Diseases almost eradicated - Smallpox, Diphtheria & Polio
Smallpox was a deadly disease. It was often fatal, and even if you survived, you were left with scars where the painful elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid used to be. But rational aggressive eradication campaign, became the first human disease that we totally wiped out, save a few deadly samples kept in labs around the world. So far, it remains the only one we’ve gotten rid of entirely, but we’re getting nearly close on it, like polio . And to do that, doctors have had to get creative, and come up with different strategies to tackle to each disease. Many diseases that are on the verge of elimination are there thanks to the same kind of preventative measures that knocked out smallpox: it's vaccines. But the smallpox vaccine wasn’t perfect because it involved getting people actually sick with a different but related virus to protect them. Most various modern vaccines are different, and that’s in part thanks to the creativity that led to the vaccine for the bacterial i...
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