Coffee with Polio Experts: Prof David Heymann, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

David Heymann, long-time public health expert, discusses what lessons smallpox eradication teaches us in eradicating a disease, and why it is critical to complete the job of polio eradication.


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