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Curious, what virus we eradicated?
by hu3 6y ago
Curious, what virus we eradicated?
- celrod 6y agoSmallpox.
- anoncake 6y agoSmallpox. Except for some samples in secure laboratories.
- dillondoyle 6y agoSmallpox. I think we're close on polio?
- oblio 6y agoWe're getting there but it's super hard to do it in remote areas and conflict regions. https://www.gatesnotes.com/health/in-pakistan-victory-against-polio-is-in-the-hands-of-local-officials https://www.gatesnotes.com/health/in-pakistan-victory-agains...
- Fomite 6y agoSmallpox and Rinderpest. Polio and Measles are doable, and at this point more logistical and political problems than biological ones.
- irq11 6y agoThe “logistical” and “political” problems being that they’re endemic in countries with major political and economic instability, where the locals have a bad tendency to kill the people doing the vaccinations. It isn’t a trivial problem. And oh yeah: Covid is in those countries now, too.
- Fomite 6y agoI never said they were trivial, and have argued exactly the opposite elsewhere. But it remains that they are logistical and political challenges, not biological ones.