September 11, 1978
The Last Death From a Beaten Disease
The death of Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox, on September 11, 1978
Smallpox had killed for thousands of years, and by 1978 the world had all but destroyed it. So how did its final victim catch it — not in a distant village, but in a darkroom above a British university lab?
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