23rd December 2008, 1:26 PM
It may have been eraticated, but I'm pritty shire young children still get vacinated for it. I think the commercial was targeted towards the 40+ generation who never got vacinated as children. By the way the wikipedia article was wrong about one thing, there was an occurance of small pox in the late 90's reported, the entire hospitable was put on lockdown. It made severial head lines.