TY - JOUR T1 - Is smallpox “in” again? JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 279 LP - 279 VL - 58 IS - 4 AU - A M Torres Cantero Y1 - 2004/04/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/58/4/279.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -