{"id":85549,"date":"2020-05-10T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15322"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:42:51","slug":"un-agencies-commemorate-40th-anniversary-of-smallpox-eradication-with-a-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-agencies-commemorate-40th-anniversary-of-smallpox-eradication-with-a-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"UN agencies commemorate 40th anniversary of smallpox eradication with a stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The World Health Organisation(WHO) and the UN\u2019\u2019s postal agency have released a commemorative postage stamp on the 40th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977.It was declared eradicated in 1980 following a global immunization campaign led by the World Health Organization.<\/li><li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong>It is transmitted from person to person via infective droplets during close contact with infected symptomatic people.<\/li><li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> High fever, Headache, vomitings and a characteristic rash that appears everywhere on the body.<\/li><li><strong>Treatment:<\/strong> No cure or treatment for smallpox exists.However, a vaccine can prevent smallpox.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The World Health Organisation(WHO) and the UN\u2019\u2019s postal agency have released a commemorative postage stamp on the 40th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox. Facts: Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family.&nbsp; The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977.It was declared eradicated&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-agencies-commemorate-40th-anniversary-of-smallpox-eradication-with-a-stamp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN agencies commemorate 40th anniversary of smallpox eradication with a stamp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2915,1068,1089],"class_list":["post-85549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-small-pox","tag-un","tag-who","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704911249},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}