Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 24, 2020 4:32:11 GMT
J. Michael Lane, epidemiologist who helped conquer smallpox, dies at 84.
J. Michael Lane, an epidemiologist who helped see to its end the global campaign to eradicate smallpox, a disease that killed hundreds of millions of people over centuries before it was vanquished in one of the most celebrated feats in the history of medicine, died Oct. 21 at his home in Atlanta. He was 84.