1966 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom

UK communicable disease incident

The East Wing of the University of Birmingham Medical School

The 1966 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom was an outbreak of mild smallpox which began with Tony McLennan, a photographer at the Medical School in Birmingham, which housed a smallpox laboratory and where 12 years later the last fatal smallpox outbreak would occur, also beginning with a medical photographer.[1][2][3][4][5]

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1. ^ Das, Pam (January 2004). "Alasdair Geddes--Emeritus Professor of Infection in the School of Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK. Interview by Pam Das". The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. 4 (1): 54–57\. doi:10.1016/s1473-3099(03)00862-4. ISSN 1473-3099. PMID 14720570.(subscription required)
2. ^ Walker, A. M. (1 December 2018). "The last days of smallpox: tragedy in Birmingham". Journal of Hospital Infection. 100 (4): 478. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2018.07.029. ISSN 0195-6701. S2CID 81577857.
3. ^ Stockton, William (4 February 1979). "Smallpox is not dead (Published 1979)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
4. ^ Pallen, Mark (2018). "13. Staffordshire 1966". The Last Days of Smallpox; Tragedy in Birmingham. pp. 37–38\. ISBN 9781980455226.
5. ^ "Smallpox: 3 May 1966: House of Commons debates". TheyWorkForYou. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020.

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