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The Eradication of Smallpox

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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A Brief History of Smallpox

Warning signs were posted at murka hospital, which was placed under 24 hour guard. Vaccines were administered to every one who worked at the hospital and all of the patients in the surgical ward,. In the medical ward, they were quarantined until november seventeenth. The hospital also suspended all non emergency care by referring out patient procedures to other facilities. There was a massive public information campaign with a reward for reporting smallpox cases. ali maomalin was the last person to contract naturally occurring smallpox. That was ten years, nine months and 26 days after the start of the eradication campaign.

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