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		Puer on July 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A drug for smallpox has been approved, even though... It would be unfortunate if otherwise eradicated diseases make a reoccurrence because of the ill-informed anti-vaccination movement. I hope this drug and others never has to see use in the future.

rhino369 on July 21, 2018 [–]

People aren't generally vacinated against small pox becuase it has been eradicated. If it comes back, it's because of biowarefare or research mistake.

_qhtn on July 21, 2018 | [–]

Or climate change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-earth-warms-th...

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