1966 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom

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 a fatal smallpox outbreak would occur, also beginning with a medical photographer.[1][2][3][4][5]

The East Wing of the University of Birmingham Medical School

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