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Germ Warfare: Monitoring Health in the United States and Beyond
first decades, the CDC concentrated on the eradication of infectious diseases like smallpox.
Subject: smallpox
Transcript: . The fact that malaria had disappeared From the united states, and we conquered smallpox In the americas in 1971 and worldwide in 1977, Sort of lent us
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Germ Warfare: Vaccines and Childhood Diseases
't been a case of smallpox in the world since 1977, but experts debate what to do with the two known repositories of the virus left. Should it be kept for
Subject: smallpox
Transcript: eradication is a very interesting one. The only example that we currently have is smallpox, Where we know that the only reservoir in nature For smallpox was