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Polio, smallpox eradicated by vaccine program decades before COVID-19 Source: KCBD Video By Karin McCay | December 18, 2020 at 12:52 AM EST - Updated December 18 at 4:31 AM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Most people today would think of the COVID-19 pandemic as the worst major disease outbreak ever, unless you have lived long enough to remember that this is not the first or the worst.
Polio terrified American families in the 1950s, leaving hundreds of thousands of children paralyzed. Likewise, smallpox was highly contagious and often disfiguring.
Dr. Steven Berk is not only the Dean of the Texas Tech School of Medicine but he is also an Infectious Disease Specialist.