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| Smallpox alive in Scotland |
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| Friday, 18 July 2008 | |
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The vast majority of Scottish people interviewed on the streets of Edinburgh are unaware that smallpox is extinct, according to a poll sponsored by the Society for General Microbiology.
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Of the 200 people questionned only 13 per cent were aware that smallpox, which killed 300-500 million people during the 20th century, has been eradicated. Smallpox was declared extinct in 1979 following the WHO’s largest vaccination campaign. 
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