Word: halfdan
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...medicine's highest accolades. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awarded a special prize to the World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of its decade-long smallpox-eradication program. Even while they were accepting the prestigious $10,000 award in Manhattan last week, WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler of Denmark and the Cleveland-born chief of the eradication program, Dr. Donald A. Henderson, were in touch with aides in the East African nation of Somalia, where the last two known cases of smallpox were discovered Oct. 29 and Nov. 4. If no further cases are reported, smallpox could become...