He was suffering from smallpox.

We've seen the eradication of smallpox.

I am immune to smallpox.

We declared smallpox eradicated in 1980.

There was a danger the smallpox could spread.

But smallpox eradication was hard it was very, very hard.

Smallpox early detection, early response.

Flat smallpox, which killed 100 percent of people who got it.

Smallpox was unknown to Native Americans.

Day seven, they show the classic scars of smallpox umbilication.

The key to eradicating smallpox was early detection, early response.

Larry Brilliant Smallpox was the worst disease in history.

When you read the biblical plague of boils, that was smallpox.

But smallpox was the fourth disease that was intended for eradication.

In that year, there were 34 countries affected with smallpox.

Images of limb regeneration and faces filled with smallpox 21 percent of the conference.

There are other kinds of smallpox that are not like that.

But in that year, smallpox exploded throughout India.

But to see smallpox from the perspective of a sovereign is the wrong perspective.

I got to see the last case of killer smallpox in the world.

Because I thought that had been eradicated in the way that smallpox had been eradicated.

When in love, even pockmarks are dimples.

So, how we eradicated smallpox was max vaccination wouldn't work.

And India was the place where smallpox made its last stand.

Here we come down with the eradication of smallpox, better education, health service.

It wasn't just India that had smallpox deities smallpox deities were prevalent all over the world.

Pharaoh Ramses the Fifth, whose picture is here, died of smallpox.

And hemorrhagic smallpox, the most cruel of all, which had a predilection for pregnant women.

We have three different strains of Agarikon mushrooms that were highly active against poxviruses.

He went there after the death of his wife of smallpox and brought his two young children.

To eradicate smallpox, we had to gather the largest United Nations army in history.

The second challenge we had was in contrast to the smallpox vaccine, which was very stable, and a single dose protected you for life the polio vaccine is incredibly fragile.

And when they did, they took smallpox to 10 other countries and reignited the epidemic.

It should make you optimistic that smallpox no longer exists because it was the worst disease in history.

For many in the field of public health, the greatest triumph achieved by medicine in this century was the eradication of smallpox.

In the Summer of Love, in 1967, two million people, children, died of smallpox.

I've probably had 50 women die. They all had hemorrhagic smallpox.

So, we searched and we searched, and we found every case of smallpox in India. We had a reward.

There are 20 million people on the road at any time in buses and trains, walking, 500,000 villages, 120 million households, and none of them wanted to report if they had a case of smallpox in their house because they thought that smallpox was the visitation of a deity, Shitala Mata, the cooling mother, and it was wrong to bring strangers into your house when the deity was in the house. No incentive to report smallpox.

We visited every house in India, searching for smallpox 120 million houses, once every month, for nearly two years.

When she was four years old, she had her first mystical experience during an attack of smallpox that brought her to the brink of death.

There's a vetted press release that you can read it's vetted by DOD if you Google Stamets and smallpox.

And they caught smallpox in the one remaining place that had smallpox, and they went home to die.

You can see, with independence, literacy improved and vaccinations started, smallpox was eradicated, hygiene was improved, and things got better.

But, in the end, we succeeded, and the last case of smallpox this little girl, Rahima Banu Barisal, in Bangladesh when she coughed or breathed, and the last virus of smallpox left her lungs and fell on the dirt and the sun killed that last virus, thus ended a chain of transmission of history's greatest horror.