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Show case. Maalin, cook a in Somalia, contracted in October, 1977. He was quarantined and health workers smallpox vaccinated 161 people who had been in contact with him. Maalin lived, but he wasnt the last victim of the disease. Last September a British medical photographer, Janet Parker, died of smallpox a the result of a laboratory accident. Her mother also became ill, but survived. There have been no .v OrrfT -- r-w- Despite the enormity Brought by Cortes to the New World, it even- of the task," Dr. Henderson says, "the nature of tually killed an estimated 3.5 million Indians smallpox gave grounds and contributed to the for optimism. Unlike collapse of the Inca and many diseases, smallpox Aztec civilizations, Dr. virus has no known resHenderson writes. ervoir other than man. Since one person selDecimation of North dom infects more than American Indians paved the way for European five others, the disease settlement." spreads slowly and its is easily followed by is trail transmitSmallpox in exthe faces of surscarred ted tiny droplets from vivors. the mouth pelled WHO tried again in and nose. A victim develfever and within 1967, under Dr. Hendeops pain two weeks, then the rash. rsons direction. That ye r 131.000 Confirmation of th campaigns success rer quires that a search of every infected area of the world finds no new cases of smallpox anywhere. But Dr. Henderson feels reasonably certain that we have reached our goal: zero cases of the most devastating and feared of the great the first pestilences disease to be eradicated by man. tions. By 1975, that number was reduced to five; in 1977, to none. two-yea- Weather NEPHI WEATHER E. C. Sherwood, reporter The LEVAN WEATHER Derle Hansen, reporter Times-New- s 2Nephi, Utah 1979 -. Subscribe! conclude smallpox prob- ably killed him about 1160 B. C. ft z SLim By SURVEY is conducted by an Ethiopian health officer who shows a photograph of a smallpox victim and asks villagers if they have seen anvone with the telltale rash. Marian Kaplan & 1976 National Geographic The answer here and elsewhere in the didnt kill were permanworld has been 'No, and authorities beently scarred, sometimes lies e the disease that once was as feared as blinded. The ravages of the plague has been eradicated. smallpox smallpox eradica- ;WorId-wid-e In the centuries separating the pharaoh and the photographer, untold millions succumbed to the disease. Those it repeatedly altered history. called cowpox never got smallpox. He used cow-po- x to develop the worlds first vaccine. Compulsory vaccination rid many nations of the disease by the 1940s. In 1959 the World tined needle that could be sterilized and reused. When dipped in vaccine, the tines captured enough fluid between them for a vaccination to be applied with 15 quick jabs to the arm. Health teams that inHealth Organization cluded teachers and Boy (WHO) launched a drive to wipe out smallpox en- Scouts took to the field. tirely. It failed, but the By 1972, smallpox was idea was not dropped. prevalent in only 19 na- - Nephi Lumber Co. Your ace hardware dealer Remember Nephi Lumber Clearance Sale ends this Saturday. 25 to 50 elMsCss m off tion now deemed possible School of Hygiene and Public Health at the impossible. Yet is just a decade, Johns Hopkins Universithe disease that had ty, recalls the day last scourged humanity for April that he received thousands of years has word his efforts had been apparently been van- successful. The telegram from quished. The last known he is on earth Nairobi, Kenya, smallpox frozen in a few glass vials writes, lay on my desk. Search complete. No held in a dozen laboratorcases discovered. Ali ies around the world. The closely guarded Maow Maalin is worlds virus is being stored so smallpox that it can be used to produce vaccine if the disease should reappear. In the December NaTimes-New- s tional Geographic, Dr. Henderson, dean of the Volume 70, No. 1 )anuary74, 1979 is one thing; Asia is quite J. ONeill National Geographic News Service When Dr. Donald A. Henderson agreed to head a United Nations drive to wipe out smallpox, a colleague warned him bluntly, You dont stand a chance. . by William Three years later, a massive campaign had rid several countries of the dread .disease, a professor from England cautioned him: Bear in mind that Asia is the ancient home of ; smallpox. Eradication in South America or Africa when last-know- n ! i i M; Kwiks I Weekend Special i Fish & Chips $1185 I : The i with coupon Price good Thur thur Sunday - Vance P. & Allan R. Jan. 4th to Jan. 7th S7(yj S7mi? 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