How Russia's vaccine diplomacy echoes the Soviet-era smallpox initiative
In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union provided 450 million doses of a smallpox vaccine to developing countries, helped by an innovative freeze-drying technique well suited to regions with underdeveloped heath infrastructures. By 1980, largely as a result of a World Health Organisation programme coordinated between the US and the USSR, smallpox had been eradicated. The deadly pox went from millions of confirmed global cases a year to zero in less than two decades. The Soviets’ health diploma...
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