I had already known many of these questions from other courses and from watching the news or reading the newspaper. However, one thing I learned that I didn't know before was that smallpox had been completely eradicated. By 1958, the little box had killed 2 million people annually worldwide. In the 1970s it was eradicated thanks to public health efforts. Being able to say that a disease had been eradicated was a great achievement. Through the process of elimination, I was able to decide that it was not hepatitis because we still hear about this disease and there are still vaccinations to protect against it. I knew it wasn't leukemia because people still suffer from it; How I wish leukemia had been eradicated. This process left me with heliobacter pylori and smallpox. From there I had a fifty-fifty