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1972 Ethiopia. Discovery of a case

Photo credit: WHO, Paul Almasy
Source: WHO Photo Library #A-010798; WHO 1988, Smallpox and Its Eradication

Ethiopia
1972

Sidamo Province. A surveillance worker records the discovery by a medical team of a smallpox case. The boy's parents look on. The victim, an 8-year-old boy, had been ill for 10 days.