Smallpox: The Plague That Humanity Defeated

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Source/Further reading:

History, the Rise and Fall of smallpox: https://www.history.com/news/the-rise...
Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/science/sm...
CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/...
Timeline: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/...
Edward Jenner: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british...
In Our Time on inoculation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003...
Cowpox or horsepox? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
Smallpox and the Aztecs: https://theconversation.com/how-small...
Fall of the Inca Empire: https://www.ancient.eu/article/915/pi...
Smallpox and Native Americans: https://books.google.cz/books?id=v0zE...
Infected blankets: https://www.history.com/news/colonist...
Smallpox in labs today: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
Some notes on vaccination: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
Antonine Plague: https://www.ancient.eu/Antonine_Plague/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
Plague of Athens: https://www.ancient.eu/article/939/th...
Smallpox in the Hittite Empire: https://books.google.cz/books?id=z2zM...
Does smallpox actually only date from the 16th Century? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
1978 Birmingham outbreak: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-b...
Notes on wiping out Guinea Worm: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
Notes on malaria eradication: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/20...