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Aug 11, 1157
Early Evidence of Smallpox
Pharaoh Ramesses V of Egypt had Smallpox -
Edward Jenner conducted his first experiment with Smallpox
Jenner's theory that if someone contracted cowpox, they can't contract Smallpox was proved correct. -
Wales
In Wales a traveller from Pakistan seeded a smallpox outbreak in the Rhondda -
Somalia
The last natural case of smallpox was in Somalia -
Smallpox in lab
Janet Parker, a medical photographer at the University of Birmingham, was accidentally infected with smallpox and later died