Why Wiping Out Smallpox Has Stoked Risk of Monkeypox

9:19pm PDT - May 19th, 2022    monkeypox virus disease outbreak - Bloomberg

The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public-health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued humanity for at least 3,000 years. But, on the downside, it led…