A Further Look Into… A Milestone In Modern Medicine
May 8th, 2021 By Michelle L. Warmath “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right … and a desire to know.” — John Adams, 1765 Forty-one years ago, on May 8, 1980, the World Health Organization officially certified that smallpox had been eradicated completely. Smallpox was a scourge of Biblical proportions. Its known existence goes as far back as Ancient Egypt, as scars left from smallpox have been found on Egyptian mummies. It caused thousands of painful blisters that spread all over the body and in the mouth and left extensive and disf...