Years later, while helping an elderly woman off a train, I noticed the same type of scar in the same spot. My curiosity returned instantly. When I asked my mother about it, her answer surprised me: it was from the smallpox vaccine.
Smallpox was a deadly viral disease caused by the variola virus. It spread easily and killed about 30% of those infected, leaving survivors scarred for life. For centuries, it devastated populations around the world.
Thanks to global vaccination campaigns, smallpox became the first disease ever eradicated. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it eradicated in 1980, and routine vaccinations in the U.S. stopped years earlier, in 1972.
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