How has smallpox been eliminated?

Answer 1

The small pox is technically considered eradicated, but cultures are kept in labs in the United States and Russia for observation and studying. Although cultures are kept in labs (and those cultures are the real small pox), it is technically considered eradicated.

Answer 2

The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine to be developed. The process of vaccination was discovered by Edward Jenner in 1796, who acted upon his observation that milkmaids who caught the cowpox virus did not catch smallpox.[1] Prior to wide-spread vaccination, mortality rates in individuals with smallpox were high-up to 35% in some cases.[2]

Answer 3

Smallpox is extremely virulent, as it is an airborne virus, which allows it to spread very easily among populations. Though it only kill about 30% of its victims, millions died a year from smallpox because of the sheer number who were infected. The WHO organized a Smallpox eradication campaign to immunize millions from smallpox because of its death toll, which would increase as global travel continued to grow. As Smallpox can only survive and reproduce in humans, this campaign was able to suceed, since they didn't have to worry about animal carriers. Smallpox now exists (officially) only in two places; the CDC in Atlanta, and a research facility in Russia.

Answer 4

They eradicated it through a mass vaccination of the disease.

Answer 5

they eradicated small pox by doctor whi

Answer 6

smallpox ran out of anyone to infect