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Can smallpox kill children

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Smallpox no longer exists, due to an extensive vaccination campaign. The last case of smallpox was in 1977. Thanks to the eradication campaign, it longer serves any threat. Before eradication, it killed millions of people every year, including countless children.

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