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Diseases We Have Eradicated or Nearly Eradicated

Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 after a 12-year WHO campaign. Rinderpest, a cattle disease, was eradicated in 2011. Polio is 99% gone, trapped in just two countries.

Guinea worm is down from 3.5 million cases to under 20. Dracunculiasis may be the next disease eliminated entirely..

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