The Plea is a data-driven documentary by Neil Halloran about how smallpox was eradicated from the face of the Earth. “What it took was humanity, through the use of science & humanitarianism, answering its own plea for something to be done about it.”
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Smallpox: Defeating a Virus That Killed Half a Billion People
This is a great data-driven short documentary by Neil Halloran about how smallpox was eradicated from the face of the Earth. And what it took was humanity, through the use of science & humanitarianism, answering its ow
