Another Quote by Michael Specter

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, 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

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

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

— 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

“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

“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 can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

— David Gelernter

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

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

— Barton Gellman

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

— Larry Brilliant