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As we witnessed the starvation, disease, and dying in Somalia, it was surely difficult to remember that Somalia was the site of the greatest triumph of 20th-century international public health. There, in October 1977, Ali Maow Maalin, a 23-year-old cook in the town of Merca, was identified as having "the world's last endemic case of smallpox"¹. Now, more than 15 years later, Somalia may again prove to be a turning point in the much longer and larger human struggle to end deaths from famine. To understand that opportunity amid all the pain and suffering requires a sense of that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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