O B S: Coronavius can be fought as a quitter 40 years ago

While the world marks a major achievement of science and public health with the disappearance of smallpox 40 years ago, the World Health Organization reports that the method used to eliminate this deadly disease can now serve to combat coronus.

In the 20th century alone, over 300 million people have died from leaving until he disappeared in 1975 in an O-led effort. BSH. Historians claim that success is dedicated to global unity and cooperation, where both the United States and Russia cooperated, even though it was the climax of the Cold War.

Rosamund Lewis, head of O Secretariat BSH for Liya told the Voice of America that they can be found in parallels in the methods of that period and war today with coronavirus.

This was achieved with basic public health measures based on epidemiology, case identification, contact ID, quarantine, isolation and treatment,Mrs. Lewis said.

These are the basic methods and ways that brought the disease to extinction. The line was found, and we still don't have a vaccine for the coronavirus. So research-scient work is very important”.

Smallpox samples are kept under strict control at two WHO centres, one in the US, the other in Russia.

Mrs. Lewis says the existence of these samples continues to keep the debate alive if they must be preserved for research purposes, or if they must be destroyed to avoid the risk of the incident accidentally surviving and begin to infect the population.

Different countries have vaccines, fearing that the permit may resurface, while approved treatment exists for the disease.