Branch links a health milestone to the field of medicine it belongs to. Wikipedia describes smallpox as "an infectious disease caused by the variola virus," and its eradication is remembered chiefly within virology and vaccine science. This dimension groups milestones that belong to the same field of health work.
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1. Wikipedia: Epidemiology
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In 1543 he wrote a book De contagione et contagiosis morbis, in which he was the first to promote personal and environmental hygiene to prevent disease.
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