Scenarios about 'disease eradication'
The elimination of specific infectious diseases through deliberate public health efforts, vaccination campaigns, and international cooperation. Disease eradication represents one of humanity's greatest medical achievements, with smallpox being the only human disease fully eradicated globally as of 2023, while efforts continue against polio, guinea worm, and other diseases. In alternate history scenarios, different timelines of disease eradication can dramatically alter population growth, economic development, and geopolitical power structures.
What If Smallpox Was Never Eradicated?
Exploring the alternate timeline where humanity's first and only successful disease eradication campaign failed, allowing smallpox to remain a deadly global threat into the 21st century.
What If The Smallpox Vaccine Was Never Created?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Edward Jenner never developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796, potentially altering the course of modern medicine, public health, and global demographics.