1966 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom

UK communicable disease incident right|thumb|The East Wing of the University of Birmingham Medical School The 1966 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom was an outbreak of mild smallpox which began with Tony McLennan, a photographer at the Medical School in Birmingham, which housed a smallpox laboratory and where 12 years later the last fatal smallpox outbreak would occur, also beginning with a medical photographer.Das Pam January 2004 Alasdair Geddes--Emeritus Professor of Infection in the School of Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK. Interview by Pam Das The Lancet. Infectious Diseases 4 1 54–57 10.1016/s1473-3099(03)00862-4 1473-3099 14720570Walker A. M. 1 December 2018 The last days of smallpox: tragedy in Birmingham https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(18)30394-3/abstract Journal of Hospital Infection en 100 4 478 10.1016/j.jhin.2018.07.029 81577857 0195-6701 subscriptionStockton William 4 February 1979 Smallpox is not dead (Published 1979) en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/04/archives/smallpox-is-not-dead.html 28 December 2020 0362-4331 subscriptionPallen Mark The Last Days of Smallpox; Tragedy in Birmingham 2018 9781980455226 37–38 13. Staffordshire 1966https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1966-05-03a.1428.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20200524111152/https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1966-05-03a.1428.0 24 May 2020 Smallpox: 3 May 1966: House of Commons debates TheyWorkForYou References Category:Smallpox epidemics Smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom Category:University of Birmingham