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The campaign, which cost an estimated total of $300 million, employed a strategy called ring vaccination that was credited to the American epidemiologist Willia
by chris_va 10y ago
The campaign, which cost an estimated total of $300 million, employed a strategy called ring vaccination that was credited to the American epidemiologist William Foege.
Even with inflation, best 300M ever spent.
- roywiggins 10y agoThe fun part about eliminating the disease is that the cumulative benefit never starts going down - as long as there are people, they will benefit.
- MichaelMoser123 10y agoRIP. 'The Heroes of my field have slain one of the horsemen of the apaocalypse, while the heroes of your field have gathered in the desert to create a new one' https://xkcd.com/1520/ https://xkcd.com/1520/ Deserves a black bar, doesn't it?
- dankohn1 10y agoI'd like to reiterate the call for an HN black bar today. I think DA Henderson may be responsible for saving the lives of more people than any other single person who has ever lived. And he did it through science, but also through executing on a plan.
- afarrell 10y agoI want to see how the next person in line on that comic describes Fritz Haber.
- kwhitefoot 10y agoEven though physics is my field I like the xkcd.