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Voluntary donations here: For centuries, terrible epidemics and diseases held entire nations hostage, intimidating and gradually destroying helpless people, getting into every house and terrifying the inhabitants of every village, city and town. Now many of these diseases are virtually unknown in developed countries. Yellow fever, diphtheria, smallpox, rabies, cholera, typhus and typhoid fever, poliomyelitis, measles - each of these diseases killed and maimed more people than world wars. But few people know how the history of the victory of mankind over these terrible pestilences began. In Bogota, in memory of the great victory over death, there is a huge monument erected in honor of young children. These are 22 boys from three to nine years old, who delivered the precious smallpox vaccine to another part of the world on their pure children's bodies. History textbooks contain events about wars that claimed human lives, but nothing is said about children who saved
