Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. — Barton Gellman
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Mini who’s who:
Barton Gellman : American Journalist
Born: November 3, 1960