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To mark the convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China Daily has selected 10 sets of photo stories that illustrate various aspects of the country's development during the past decade. The photos, posters and videos showcase the achievements and experiences of the Party's cause, and the country under Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. This is the fifth in the series.
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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 disfiguring scarring in most cases. Its severest cases left one-third of survivors blind. There are traders’ and whalers’ accounts of people in agony from the fever and blisters going to lie in a river, a lake or in the sea surf to try to find relief and refusing to come out until they died. People perished of smallpox in the hundreds of thousands every year in medieval Europe and an estimated
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