Anthrax — United States
Donald “D.A.” Henderson, an American epidemiologist who led the international war on smallpox that resulted in its eradication in 1980, the only such vanquishment in history of a human disease and an achievement that was credited with saving tens of millions of lives, died [19 Aug 2016] at a hospice facility in Towson, Md. He was 87.
The cause was complications from a broken hip, said his daughter, Leigh Henderson.
A self-described “disease detective,” Dr. Henderson spent the defining
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