... Professor Downie SMALLPOX has become part of history, thanks to Professor Allan Watt Downie, bacteriologist and pathologist, who died on January 26, the day that “marked the end of an era for all mankind”’ — and the reminder of the smallpox eradication, the ...

... £5,000,000 to help to eradicate some of these diseases in the same way that the World Health Organisation has eradicated Smallpox from the world. An interesting sidelight to all this were some facts and figures that demonstrated that less than a hundred ...

... of health. There is now the real prospect of diseases dying out rather than children dying of the diseases. For centuries smallpox was a killer scourge throughout our planet; but as a result of mass innoculation in the last ten years only one person had ...