"Smallpox—Epitaph for a Killer?"
Magazine article
By: Donald A. Henderson
Date: December 1978
Source: Henderson, Donald A. "Smallpox—Epitaph for a Killer?" National Geographic 154, no. 6, December 1978, 796–805.
About the Author: Donald A. Henderson (1928–) was born in Ohio and received an M.D. from the University of Rochester in New York. In 1965, the World Health Organization appointed Henderson, then a professor at Johns Hopkins University, to direct its campaign to eradicate smallpox. In 1979, Henderson announced that the world was free of smallpox.
Introduction
The virus Poxvirus variole causes smallpox. The virus incubates for ten to fourteen days in the body, causing chills, seizures, fever above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, vomiting, delirium, and stupor or coma. These symptoms peak on the second day and begin to subside thereafter, leading a victim to hope he has not...
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