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How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years


In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all united to promote the new smallpox vaccine, which led to a remarkably quick elimination of the disease in the capital

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