The Last Natural Case of Smallpox

Malin was the last natural case of smallpox. A medical photographer, Janet Parker, became ill and started showing signs of smallpox in 1978. It turns out she had used a phone booth in a building which shared an air duct with a smallpox research lab. Some of the virus must have escaped through the duct into the booth where she inhaled it. The scientist whose lab it was, Dr. Henry Bedson committed suicide.