Hello,
I thought I would post this new article from West Midlands Police history/museum site. Last time I put the post in the wrong place - I hope this is the correct place.
I would add that smallpox was an extremely serious disease with an exceptionally high mortality rate. Isolation hospitals were strategically placed and quarantine restrictions were no going out at all!
I hoe you find it informative. Thank you, Graham.
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I thought I would post this new article from West Midlands Police history/museum site. Last time I put the post in the wrong place - I hope this is the correct place.
I would add that smallpox was an extremely serious disease with an exceptionally high mortality rate. Isolation hospitals were strategically placed and quarantine restrictions were no going out at all!
I hoe you find it informative. Thank you, Graham.
The Last but not Forgotten
In 1967 the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched an intensive plan to eradicate smallpox globally. This plan was underpinned with an immunisation and surveillance campaign that saw the last natural smallpox case in Somalia in 1977. The WHO declared smallpox eradicated from global circulation...
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