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Smallpox is a contagious, disfiguring, and often deadly disease that has affected humans for thousands of years. Naturally occurring smallpox was wiped out worldwide by 1980 - the result of an unprecedented global immunization campaign. Samples of the smallpox virus have been kept for research purposes. What happened next has all the hallmarks of a Greek drama or Shakespearean tragedy, with the shocking but mysterious appearance of a dreaded disease in the heart of England; a frantic effort to save a city-and the world-from disaster; a tragic heroine, a photographer, who suffered a hideous fate; and a tragic hero, a virology professor, driven to mortifying despair, treated as a scapegoat during an official inquiry, but later exonerated in a court of law. Here, I give a full account of the 1978 Birmingham smallpox outbreak and the ensuing court case, drawn from records of the time and the reminiscences of those who lived through it.

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