The earliest credible clinical evidence of smallpox is found in the Egyptian mummy of Ramses V who died over 3000 years ag.
No one knows who first got smallpox.
date salmonella was first documented
Smallpox was on the First Fleet in the form of bottles of dried innoculation materials. Such material was used to protect people against smallpox before Jenner's vaccination became available. No case of active smallpox disease was reported during the First Fleet voyage. However a seamen from the First Fleet caught smallpox (from local natives) over a year after arrival at Sydney Cove.
Who cares! It is already dead bro. We don't know when smallpox started. We only know when its presence was first documented. It probably was around before that but in isolated areas where everyone (almost everyone) infected would die, limiting its spread. Once it reached congested European (and American) towns where people traveled frequently, it would spread. We believe smallpox has been eradicated, but you never know if there are carriers in remote places.
smallpox was the first virus that was vaccinated for
polio
Smallpox is believed to have been around since ancient times, so it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where it was first discovered. However, the earliest recorded outbreaks of smallpox date as far back as ancient Egypt, India, and China. The first vaccine for smallpox was developed by Edward Jenner in the late 18th century.
october of 1563
on 25 Jan 1734
a jab
a boy
about 10,000 BC