The annals of history are strewn with smallpox-infested corpses. The idealist thinks, “Ah, the past. What a barbaric era!” The cynic thinks, “Open your eyes. We have traded smallpox for the horrors of HIV/AIDs.” To which we respond, as always, show me the numbers: smallpox killed an estimated one-third to one-half a billion people, while … Continue reading What’s deadlier: HIV or Smallpox?