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Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant recounts how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a global surveillance system that will use networked technology to identify and contain pandemics and other disasters before they spread.
About Larry Brilliant
2006 TED Prize winner Dr. Larry Brilliant has spent his career solving the ills of today -- from overseeing the last smallpox cases to saving millions from blindness -- and building technologies of... Read full bio »
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