Listen: It’s a Small World Health Organization

The WHO has also become more action-oriented, so it’s not just committees classifying diseases. WHO does a lot of work with disease-eradication and disease-control programs. The most successful one was smallpox, a disease we no longer have. It’s the biggest achievement in the history of the WHO. Some say the biggest achievement of humanity in the 20th century was the eradication of that disease.

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