Virtually 20 years in the past, James Randerson ordered a sequence of smallpox DNA. Smallpox is the one human illness to have ever been successfully eradicated — 46 years in the past as of yesterday. It’s one of many deadliest infections in human historical past, killing about 500 million people over three millennia — with 300 million of these deaths estimated to have occurred within the final century alone.
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