Humans Have Wiped Out Only Two Diseases Ever 🐄 #Shorts #LessonToday
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Only two diseases have ever been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest, a deadly cattle plague.
In the 1890s a rinderpest epidemic killed 80 to 90 percent of all cattle in sub-Saharan Africa, triggering widespread famine.
Through national and international vaccination and surveillance programmes, including the FAO-led Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme launched in 1994, the virus was pushed…