biomedicalephemera reblogged
moshita-deactivated20180620
1975! G'lord! That's the year that the last indigenous case of variola major occured. A girl from Bangladesh named Rahima Banu had that last case in October of 1975. There was a case of variola minor in Somalia in 1977, but 1975 is when the more serious form was eradicated in the wild.