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1157 BCE
Pharaoh Ramses V died of smallpox
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250
The Huns introduced smallpox to China
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580
Smallpox swept across northern Italy and Southern France
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1438
Paris was struck by a smallpox epidemic
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1492
Christopher Columbus arrived on Hispaniola
This exposed the native Taino people to smallpox -
1518
A third of the Taino people had died
Mostly because of smallpox -
1520
A soldier in Hernando Cortes's army caught smallpox
AD-An african slave presumably spread smallpox to a soldier serving in hernando cortes’s army weakening Cortes's army substantially. -
1527
A smallpox epidemic struck Cuzco
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A smallpox struck native americans
The group that was struck in particular was located near plimoth colony -
Dr. Emanuel Timoni wrote a book on inoculation
Inoculation being a type of immunization where the person being vaccinated is given a minor case of smallpox having a much lower death rate than the normal way of getting smallpox, so people found this preferable. -
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu re inspired an interest inoculation
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu finally got the European elite to (and thus the public to) test inoculation -
The European public tests inoculation
An inoculation test was run on 6 death row prisoners who had not had smallpox were given the option to be inoculated if it made them immune to smallpox then they would be released from jail -
Edward Jenner makes a Hypothesis
The basis for the smallpox vaccination was born as Dr. Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids who received cowpox (a disease in cows were painful pustules form on a cow’s udder). -
Edward Jenner runs an experiment
Edward Jenner tested his theory about cowpox on multiple children including his own son after these children were injected with pus from cowpox pustules they didn’t show symptoms of or transmit smallpox most of the time for the rest of their lives -
Mass production of needles begins
With the diseases spreading faster due to unsanitary medical procedures scientists make a breakthrough the disposable needle used to this day -
Last natural outbreak of smallpox in the US
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Smallpox eliminated from North America
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Smallpox eradicated from Europe
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The WHO initiated a plan to get rid of smallpx
This plan initiated by the WHO required the US and the then Soviet Union to work together! -
The WHO intensified its iradication program
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Smallpox was eradicated from south america
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Smallpox was eradicated from Asia
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Smallpox was eradicated from Africa
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Last naturally occurring smallpox death.
Jainet Parker was the last person to die of naturally occurring smallpox
