The Demon in the Freezer
when was smallpox last found in nature?
The Demon in the freezer
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The Demon in the freezer
November, 1975. Dr. Stanly O. Foster finds the world’s last natural case of variola major: a three-year-old girl named Rahima Banu, on Bhola Island, Bangladesh.
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