Forty years ago,smallpox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization(WHO).As D.A.Henderson,Director of the Smallpox Eradication Programme at the WHO quoted from the 33^(rd) World Health Assembly(1980)(1),...Forty years ago,smallpox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization(WHO).As D.A.Henderson,Director of the Smallpox Eradication Programme at the WHO quoted from the 33^(rd) World Health Assembly(1980)(1),“...the world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox...a most devastating disease...since earliest time,leaving death,blindness,and disfigurement in its wake and which only a decade ago was rampant in Africa,Asia and South America.”展开更多
文摘Forty years ago,smallpox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization(WHO).As D.A.Henderson,Director of the Smallpox Eradication Programme at the WHO quoted from the 33^(rd) World Health Assembly(1980)(1),“...the world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox...a most devastating disease...since earliest time,leaving death,blindness,and disfigurement in its wake and which only a decade ago was rampant in Africa,Asia and South America.”