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Killing a Killer: What Next for Smallpox?

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Smallpox is a uniquely human disease.

This 1974 photo of a young villager in the Rangpur district of northeastern Bangladesh depicts one of the last known infections of a human with variola major virus. (Source: Jean Roy, Emory Global Health Institute, from the CDC Public Health Image Library at http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp.)

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000727.g001