Sabin Vaccine Institute, Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Convene Smallpox Eradication Symposium | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

WASHINGTON -- Thirty years after the eradication of smallpox, global health policymakers, practitioners and advocates have gathered to discuss the massive campaign to eradicate humanity’s greatest killer and how the campaign’s lessons and legacies relate to current and future global health priorities. The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin), Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) convened the symposium, “Smallpox Eradication after 30 Years: Lessons, Legacies and Innovations,” today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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