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• Smallpox
• Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated – here’s how the world achieved it

Charts

• Cumulative RCTs published in high-ranked medical journals
• Deaths caused by smallpox as a share of all deaths in London
• Deaths from smallpox per 1,000 population
• Decade in which smallpox ceased to be endemic by country
• Life expectancy
• Life expectancy at birth and smallpox deaths per 10,000 people in Sweden
• Number of reported smallpox cases
• Reported number of smallpox infections by world region
• Share of clinical trials that report results within a year
• Share of clinical trials that report results within a year
• The discrepancy between the reported and revised numbers of global smallpox cases