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Man with smallpox (MAMAS CA44-271-4), National Museum of Health and Medicine

Description: The feet of a man afflicted with smallpox, showing the macules characteristic of the disease. Patient of the El Kettar Civilian Hospital, Algiers, Algeria.

Smallpox, or variola, was an infectious, highly contagious disease caused by a Variola virus. Due to vaccination campaigns in the 19th and 20th centuries, the World Health Organization certified its eradication in 1980.

Date: circa World War 2

Photo ID: MAMAS CA44-271-4

Source collection: OHA 220.1: Museum and Medical Arts Service (MAMAS) Photographs

Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives

Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (<a href="http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/" rel="nofollow">www.medicalmuseum.mil/</a>)
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Source Man with smallpox (MAMAS CA44-271-4), National Museum of Health and Medicine
Author National Museum of Health and Medicine
Camera location36° 45′ 56.91″ N, 3° 01′ 54.94″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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36°45'56.909"N, 3°1'54.944"E

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