Smallpox: last case
1 May 2010
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Since smallpox was only transferred from person to person, the last infected person was the last link in the chain of transmission and represented the end of the disease in a country.
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"The last cases in countries considered endemic in 1967", exhibition display panel in Geneva for World Health Day, 1975.
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Last case of smallpox
Last case of smallpox
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Ali Maow Maalin, the last case of smallpox in Somalia, 1978.
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Prisca Elias, the last case of smallpox in Botswana, with a Surveillance Officer of Smallpox Eradication Programme, 1974.
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Kausar Parveen, the last case of smallpox in Pakistan, 1974.
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Rahima Banu, the last case of smallpox in Bangladesh, 1976.
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Amina Salat, the last case of smallpox in Ethiopia, 1976.
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Parchment signed in Geneva on 9 December 1979, by the members of the Global Commission for Certification of Smallpox Eradication.
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