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What I learned from the world’s last smallpox patient
What I learned from the world’s last smallpox patient
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News
November 9, 2023
2:05 pm

Rahima Banu, a toddler in rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world known to contract variola major, the deadly form of smallpox, through natural infection.

Wunderman’s ‘smallpox simulator’ models outbreaks, to chilling effect
Wunderman’s ‘smallpox simulator’ models outbreaks, to chilling effect
Lecia Bushak
July 15, 2022
10:00 am

The tool, created for Meridian, maps how potential outbreaks might occur throughout the world.

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