Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease

Now at AMNH Exhibitions, *Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease* traces how scientific tools, public policy, and community trust shape the fight against infectious illness. The exhibition moves from early inoculation campaigns to contemporary surveillance and eradication efforts, using case studies to show what progress costs and what it leaves behind. For New York City—long marked by immigration, density, and public-health infrastructure—it reads as local history as much as global science. Its clearest insight is that “defeating” disease is never purely a medical problem.