唐纳德·阿希礼·亨德森(Donald Ainslie Henderson)是一名美国流行病学家。他领导了全球对抗天花的战争,并最终在1980年消灭了天花。这是人类疾病史上唯一一次如此彻底地消灭一种疾病,这一成就拯救了数以千万计人们的生命。亨德森于2016年8月19日在马里兰州陶森的一家临终关怀医院离世,享年87岁。据称,他死于髋骨骨折的并发症。亨德森的荣誉包括1986年的美国国家科学 Donald Ainslie Henderson is an American epidemiologist. He led the global war against smallpox and eventually extinguished the smallpox in 1980. This is the only time in the history of human disease that the eradication of a disease so thoroughly has saved the lives of tens of millions of people. Henderson passed away at a Hospice hospital in Tausen, Maryland, on August 19, 2016, at the age of 87. He is said to have died of a complication of hip fracture. Henderson’s honors include the 1986 U.S. National Science