niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Ali Maow Maalin was the last person to get smallpox before it was eradicated.

He was cured from it in 1977 and made a full recovery.

In the 1990s he was a local coordinator in the fight against Polio in the region, where he spent years traveling around, distributing vaccines and educating the population.

In 2013, he was again campaigning in the region after Polio had been reintroduced, but fell ill with a fever.

On July 22nd 2013, he died of Malaria.

@cosmiccitizen Yes, this is extremely interesting.

If I was ~10x more mad scientist I'd try to replicate their work on my own.

@meso you're in your arthropod arc

feral law

@kaia Kali Yuga

@faho mesqueal

@Eris :-/

Gonna start calling frogs "mudpuppies"

@jhpratt Nice.

@lunarised
"Martin Luther King was a criminal!"

@tortle Huh I might be that person for others

I'd be happy being asked for LSD

@cosmiccitizen Only know some fancy fact about the posterior cingulate cortex: if you ultrasound-stimulate it, you get much better at meditation[1]

[1]: https://tricycle.org/article/brain-stimulation-meditation/

@empathy2000

Yes…
Yes!