The (Second) Deadliest Virus

This video was made possible through a grant by Open Philanthropy. Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind, for the first time, to...

11 min - Science & Tech - Kurzgesagt

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