Commitment Quote by Liya Kebede

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history…

— Barton Gellman

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Michael B.A. Oldstone

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

— Bill Gates

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

“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

In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred…

— Larry Brilliant

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

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

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

— Larry Brilliant

When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and…

— Scott Gottlieb

“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