The Greatest Hero of All Time Is Someone You’ve Never Heard Of
4 min readNov 9, 2020
His actions alone saved millions of lives.
In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Smallpox had been eradicated and the world breathed a sigh of relief. Smallpox was a deadly and highly contagious disease, killing three out of every ten people that contracted it. In the 20th century alone, it is estimated that Smallpox killed between…