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Figure 1. The last case of smallpox within a 20-nation area of west and central Africa was found in Nigeria on May 21, 1970. This event marked the success of a five-year program to eradicate smallpox from a large area in which it was endemic. The 27-year-old patient was the last victim in an epidemic of about 86 documented cases. She had been vaccinated about 10 days before these photographs were taken, as part of activities to control the outbreak after the discovery of smallpox in one other resident of her village a week previously.
Smallpox
Magner J., Maher J. P., Aly A., Aly S., Larner A. J., Herron C. A., Kassirer J. P.
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N Engl J Med 1996;
335:900-902, Sep 19, 1996.
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