Case Quote by Barton Gellman

“Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious pathogen, including…

— Richard Preston

In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every…

— Liya Kebede

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

— Larry Brilliant

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

— Bill Gates

Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions…

— Scott Gottlieb

With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no…

— Bill Gates

“Vaccination has made smallpox extinct in the wild, as well as rinderpest, a relative of measles that affects cattle and buffalo, among others. Poliomyelitis,…

— Chris von Csefalvay

“One of the medical profession's greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed this claim…

— Anonymous

We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

— Bill Gates

“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of…

— John Tilden M.D

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials,…

— Michael Specter

“no smallpox vaccinations have been given worldwide since 1980, and in some countries like the USA, since the 1960s.”

— Michael B.A. Oldstone