The Eradication of Smallpox

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Smallpox is a viral disease that has existed for millennia. But it’s now one of only two diseases that’s been eradicated through human activity, and a global plan was enacted to do it.

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1:27.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:34.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
1:44.7	I'm Tracy V Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.
1:47.7	Late March of last year, I researched and wrote our episode on the eradication of render pests.
1:54.7	Because in that moment, it just felt really weird to me to work on episodes that were not about the pandemic somehow.
2:02.7	Because that was dominating everything in our lives.
2:06.7	But at the same time, I wanted to work on something that felt kind of optimistic,
2:10.7	because the pandemic was dominating our lives.
2:14.7	So now it's almost a year and a half later, here in the US,
2:19.7	we had a pretty hopeful springtime regarding the progress of the pandemic.
2:25.7	I know that was not the case in the whole world, but we had what was looking like improved situations.
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