Is smallpox “in” again?
- Departamento de Salud Pública, Historia de la Ciencia y Ginecología, Facultad de Medicina, Campus de Sant Joan 03550 San Juan de Alicante, Spain; atorres@umh.es
The World Health Assembly in 1980 endorsed the eradication of smallpox, as previously certified by a group of respected scientists in December 1979.1 The last case recorded of naturally occurring smallpox was in Somalia in 1977, although a laboratory accident in the United Kingdom in 1978 produced a fatal case that year. None the less, except for military stockpiles, the world was deemed …
