There are a few others, but they have succeeded yet. Anti-vaxxers aren’t helping.
It is remarkable in its own way, though. We live in the only time period of human history where we can plausibly say an entire disease has gone away, and not just for rich people.
Is polio really back? I haven’t heard anything about it in years except the drive to finally eradicate it.
https://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2023/03/17/why-is-polio-making-a-comeback-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9577438/
Cheers. Well that’s depressing.
Not really. There are some vaccine related cases but nothing naturally occurring that I know of.
Unlike smallpox, no other global campaign to eradicate diseases has ever happened.
There are a few others, but they have succeeded yet. Anti-vaxxers aren’t helping.
It is remarkable in its own way, though. We live in the only time period of human history where we can plausibly say an entire disease has gone away, and not just for rich people.