So, let’s take a closer look at these rare but devastating illnesses - and specifically, why they’ve earned their reputation as some of the deadliest diseases known to humankind. Creutzfeldt ...
Much of this success has been driven by a single individual, Maurice Hilleman, the subject of the book Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases, by Paul Offit.
Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable diseases brought by European explorers. Smallpox reached Massachusetts in 1633, brought by settlers from France ...
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) declared rinderpest, one of the deadliest diseases of cattle and ... is the first animal disease ever to be eradicated by humankind” declared ...