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Dr. Anthony Fauci said he doesn’t believe coronavirus will ever be eradicated — given how quickly the contagion spreads among humans. “I don’t see this disappearing the way SARS 1 did,” Fauci said Wednesday at a livestreamed event hosted by TB Alliance, a nonprofit that researches treatments for tuberculosis. “The reason I say that is it is so efficient in its ability to transmit from human to human that I think we ultimately will get control of it,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases added. “I don’t really see us eradicating it.” Fauci said getting...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents used two Afghan children as shields while they attempted to emplace IEDs in a road in Farah province Oct. 18. U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment were conducting counter IED operations along a route in Golestan to ensure the safe passage of civilian traffic and ground convoys when they observed four insurgents attempting to emplace an IED in the road. Initially the Marines observed four adults and two children in a truck laden with burlap sacks and shovels. The adults began digging holes. Once the burlap sacks were removed from the truck and opened,...

Deadly smallpox not eradicated, scientist warns By Steve Connor, Science Editor in Geneva 22 October 2003 The return of smallpox - one of the most lethal diseases in history - is a terrifying possibility, according to the scientist who ran the World Health Organisation's campaign to eradicate the virus in the 1970s. Donald Henderson, a senior science adviser to the US government, said past assurances from certain countries claiming to have destroyed their smallpox stocks could no longer be believed. At least 30 million people are thought to have died from the disease in the 20th century. WHO scientists declared...