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Smallpox breaks out in an all out epidemic
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Smallpox breaks out in early Boston
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Benjamin Franklin loses his four year old son to the Smallpox epidemic.
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Smallpox takes the lives of three and a half thousand people in that one year
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Catherine the Great of Russia undergoes a secret surgery and is cured of Smallpox.
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The first vaccines arrive in the US
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Vaccination becomes manditory for infants inder 3 months in the UK.
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Abraham Lincoln contracts Smallpox only hours after he recites the famous Gettysburg Adresss.
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The first smallpox vaccines tested on animals arrive in the US
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Because of the unpopularity of the vaccine, many people contract smallpox resulting in an outbreak
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By this time, many schools in the US require a person to be vaccinated for smallpox in order to be accepted.
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The last reported case in the U.S.
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The US finds a vaccination for smallpox.
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Last reported case in the world
