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Pharaoh Ramesses V of Egypt had Smallpox
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Jenner's theory that if someone contracted cowpox, they can't contract Smallpox was proved correct.
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In Wales a traveller from Pakistan seeded a smallpox outbreak in the Rhondda
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The last natural case of smallpox was in Somalia
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Janet Parker, a medical photographer at the University of Birmingham, was accidentally infected with smallpox and later died