dealing with the global covid-19 pandemic, it seems like kind of a an opportune moment to look back at the history of other infectious diseases and i wanted to talk about smallpox because there are many parallels as you ll notice over the course of this talk between smallpox and the coronavirus and how societies dealt with it. also a smallpox is ultimately a success story because it s the it has been eradicated. so in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experience during coronavirus. i hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. so today s talk. we re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. there we go. there we go. all right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. pandemic of covid-19 and smallpox
also a smallpox is ultimately a success story because it s the it has been eradicated. so in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experienced during coronavirus. i hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. so today s talk. we re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. there we go. there we go. all right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. pandemic of covid-19 and smallpox now the story of smallpox, which is called the scourge of the species. it is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that had been plaguing humankind for millennia it is very deadly with mortality rates usually ranging somewhere between 20 and 60 percent. so on average about one third of people who were infected with sma
success story because it s the it has been eradicated. so in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experience during coronavirus. i hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. so today s talk. we re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. there we go. there we go. all right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. pandemic of covid-19 and smallpox now the story of smallpox, which is called the scourge of the species. it is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that had been plaguing humankind for millennia it is very deadly with mortality rates usually ranging somewhere between 20 and 60 percent. so on average about one third of people who were infected with smallpox died. those are mortality r
the coronavirus and how societies dealt with it. also a smallpox is ultimately a success story because it s the it has been eradicated. so in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experience during coronavirus. i hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. so today s talk. we re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. there we go. there we go. all right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. pandemic of covid-19 and smallpox now the story of smallpox, which is called the scourge of the species. it is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that had been plaguing humankind for millennia it is very deadly with mortality rates usually ranging somewhere between 20 and 60 percent. so on average abou
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