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Planet without this virus. >> before the devastation of aids, there was smallpox. smallpox killed 500 million people in the 20th century alone. more than all the wars in that century combined. whenever an infectious disease truly catches hold, it forces health workers to make impossible choices about the public's freedom and rights. >> i was the youngest person in the smallpox team and i was certainly the only person in the history of the united nations recruited from the ali backa ashram. >> we had eradicated smallpox. a big state in the middle of india.

It became pandemic and now endemic, so we have 37 million people living infected with hiv and there is no country on the planet without this virus. >> before the devastation of aids, there was smallpox. smallpox killed 500 million people in the 20th century alone. more than all the wars in that century combined. whenever an infectious disease truly catches hold, it forces health workers to make impossible choices about the public's freedom and rights. >> i was the youngest person in the smallpox team and i was certainly the only person in the history of the united nations recruited from the al...

Recruited from the ali backa ashram. >> we had eradicated smallpox. utsds this big stayed in the middle of india. we were about to do our victory dance and suddenly across the border, we started getting new outbreaks. they all came from one place, a place called tatanagar. the first place we went was to the rail station. it was the scene from the worst nightmare you'd had in your life. there were dozens of people stretched out on the tracks, on the cement dead from smallpox. it smelled of death. the tatanagar was the home of the tatar iron and steel company. so i went to the company's house.