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    The 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom resulted in the death of Janet Parker, a British medical photographer, who became the last recorded person...
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  • The Last Days of Smallpox: Tragedy in Birmingham is a 2018 nonfiction account of the events leading up to and following the 1978 smallpox outbreak in...
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  • laboratory escapes: Self-fulfilling prophecies". 31 March 2014. "Smallpox outbreak in London - 1973". O'Connor, Edward H.; Lee, Vernon H.; Tomori, Oyewale;...
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    Surinder Singh Bakhshi (category Tanzanian expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    effort in the community during the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom. Bakhshi received his medical degree from Makerere University in Kampala...
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  • Reginald Arthur Shooter (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    He led the enquiry into the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom and was appointed a CBE in the 1980 Birthday Honours. He retired in 1981. Reginald...
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    in money not spent on vaccinations and the costs of incidence. The last case of smallpox in the world occurred in an outbreak in the United Kingdom in...
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    The smallpox vaccine is the first vaccine to have been developed against a contagious disease. In 1796, British physician Edward Jenner demonstrated that...
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    disease transmission History of smallpox – Impact of smallpox on world history List of Ebola outbreaks – Cases and outbreaks of Ebola virus disease List of...
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  • the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and South Africa. The last cases of smallpox occurred in an outbreak of two cases, one of which was fatal, in Birmingham...
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    Keith Dumbell (category Smallpox eradication)
    smallpox viral DNA into bacteria, where they could be safely archived and studied later. Following the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom,...
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