[LINK] Completely off-topic
Frank O'Connor
francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com
Fri Oct 7 08:34:46 AEDT 2016
Now that is cool …
… WAAAY COOOOOL!
It’s good to get a reminder that things like this are happening in our world ...
Just my 2 cents worth :)
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> On 7 Oct. 2016, at 12:25 am, Stephen Loosley <stephenloosley at outlook.com> wrote:
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> https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/562fzy/what_is_the_most_pleasant_and_uplifting_fact_you/
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> 7 hours ago
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> Smallpox emerged over 10,000 years ago. At its peak the disease killed 15 million people a year, maimed millions more and caused 1/3 of all blindness.
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> Between the 1850s and the 1910s, mandatory vaccination drove smallpox out of North America and Europe. A coordinated UN effort from 1950 to the 1970s eliminated smallpox from the rest of the world.
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> There hasn't been a single case since 1977.
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> Working together, every country in the world teamed up to destroy an enemy that killed an estimated 400-500 million people in the 20th Century alone. And it took less than three decades to make it happen.
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> The campaign to eliminate smallpox is proof that a united humanity is capable of incredible things.
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> 5 hours ago
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> Polio is projected to be eradicated in 2018. This, by the way, in case people didn't know, is awesome.
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> There were like ... 106 recorded cases worldwide last year. There were 350 the year before.
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> This year so far? There have only been 29 worldwide.
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> We rock!
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> Source http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now
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> Cheers,
> Stephen
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