Ali Maow Maalin
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Ali Maow Maalin was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. The disease was diagnosed in
Maalin in 1977, while infected with smallpox
Smallpox virus
Polio eradication
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Polio eradication, the goal of permanent global cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort begu
Ali Maow Maalin
…declared to have been eradicated globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) two years later. Maalin was subsequently involved in the successful poliomyelitis eradication campaign in Somalia, and he died of malaria while carrying out polio vaccinations after the re-emergence of the poliovirus in 2013. Ali Maow Maalin was…
A child receives oral polio vaccine during a 2002 campaign to immunize children in India.
Somali boy receiving injection of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)
Kindergarten children receive a very early oral polio vaccine in 1960 in East Germany.
Polio vaccination in Tehran.