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In addition to providing leadership and assistance in the prevention and control of disease in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, work with international health and scientific organizations to improve the health of all people. Through the World Health Organization (WHO), the center's medical teams helped to eradicate smallpox from the countries of West Africa. Here a staff physician of the WHO vaccinates a youngster against smallpox by means of a jet injector.
c. 1970
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