Synopsis
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the development and delivery of the smallpox vaccine eradicated the disease.
- Programme: Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
- Episode: 1: Vaccines
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2021
- Biology
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