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Smallpox
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Vaccination has made smallpox extinct in the wild, as well as rinderpest, a relative of measles that affects cattle and buffalo, among others. Poliomyelitis, which has in its heyday killed and maimed millions of children and adults alike, is close to eradication, with fewer than 200 wild-type cases documented in 2020. Vaccines are some of the most effective public health interventions against infectious disease.
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― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
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They were as good and as strong as Rome. Historical fluke the Spanish ever managed to get the better of them.’
‘How did they?’ I said, wanting suddenly and badly to know.
‘Smallpox,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t strategy or anything like that. The Spanish brought smallpox with them when they landed in Mexico. It arrived in Peru before they did. And the Inca had built a wonderful, efficient road system for it to travel on. The royal family was obliterated in five years, the administration of the empire
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