Science Of The Day
Science Of The Day
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'The doctors were puzzled. Parker had a temperature of 38C, complained of aching limbs, and had pustular eruptions all over her body. But as newspapers had announced the last known case of the disease a year before, smallpox was the last thing on anyone’s minds. Parker hadn’t been out of the country, and had been vaccinated against the disease in 1966. But as they noted her raised white cell count and mild renal failure, a terrifying realisation took hold: they had a case of one the world’s most dangerous and contagious diseases in a busy hospital in suburban Birmingham.'
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Mad story about a smallpox outbreak in Birmingham in the 70's. There's a bit about the scientist driving about with samples of the deadliest strains of the disease in the back of his car.
Pretty lucky there were some quick thinking people involved.