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It is always humbling to chat with interviewees who have accomplished amazing things in their lives. Ask Dr. D.A. Henderson what he has done in his life, and on the list is: eradicate smallpox from the face of the Earth.

Henderson tells his incredible story of battling bureaucracy, travelling to villages around the globe where smallpox ravaged thousands, and eventually the day that the World Health Assembly formally announced that smallpox no longer existed anywhere in the world.

Most people don't think of diseases as fascinating, but how smallpox haunted millions certainly is harrowing.

Here is my Q&A with Dr. Henderson about his story and his new book Smallpox: The Death of a Disease:
"‘Smallpox -- The Death of a Disease,’ a Q&A with Dr. D.A. Henderson"