I am immune to smallpox.

No incentive to report smallpox.

Smallpox early detection, early response.

Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.

We've seen the eradication of smallpox.

We declared smallpox eradicated in 1980.

It wasn't just India that had smallpox deities smallpox deities were prevalent all over the world.

And they caught smallpox in the one remaining place that had smallpox, and they went home to die.

like it had a smallpox sign out there.

Smallpox killed billions of people on this planet.

But in that year, smallpox exploded throughout India.

So too do deaths from pneumonia and smallpox.

Larry Brilliant Smallpox was the worst disease in history.

But smallpox eradication was hard it was very, very hard.

The key to eradicating smallpox was early detection, early response.

Day seven, they show the classic scars of smallpox umbilication.

In that year, there were 34 countries affected with smallpox.

So, how we eradicated smallpox was max vaccination wouldn't work.

And in 1980, we declared the globe free of smallpox.

When you read the biblical plague of boils, that was smallpox.

Pharaoh Ramses the Fifth, whose picture is here, died of smallpox.

There are other kinds of smallpox that are not like that.

Flat smallpox, which killed 100 percent of people who got it.

I've probably had 50 women die. They all had hemorrhagic smallpox.

And India was the place where smallpox made its last stand.

But smallpox was the fourth disease that was intended for eradication.

I got to see the last case of killer smallpox in the world.

Here we come down with the eradication of smallpox, better education, health service.

In the Summer of Love, in 1967, two million people, children, died of smallpox.

To eradicate smallpox, we had to gather the largest United Nations army in history.

But to see smallpox from the perspective of a sovereign is the wrong perspective.

Sovereigns killed by smallpox because it shows you to be the richest and the strongest, and to be kings and queens of the world, did not protect you from dying of smallpox.

So even if somebody made the smallpox genome, that DNA itself would not cause infections.

Because I thought that had been eradicated in the way that smallpox had been eradicated.

And when they did, they took smallpox to 10 other countries and reignited the epidemic.

And hemorrhagic smallpox, the most cruel of all, which had a predilection for pregnant women.

So we searched and we searched, and we found every case of smallpox in India.

I'd like to know if you've given a smallpox vaccination to a Gus Priamos recently.

He went there after the death of his wife of smallpox and brought his two young children.

It should make you optimistic that smallpox no longer exists because it was the worst disease in history.

This little girl is Rahima Banu, and she was the last case of killer smallpox in the world.

But the third challenge we have and probably even bigger one, the biggest challenge is that, in contrast to smallpox where you could always see your enemy every single person almost who was infected with smallpox had this telltale rash.

There's a vetted press release that you can read it's vetted by DOD if you Google Stamets and smallpox.

We visited every house in India, searching for smallpox 120 million houses, once every month, for nearly two years.

And people immediately freak out about things about Ebola or smallpox, but the DNA from this organism is not infective.