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drhunny t1_j9um6mg wrote

Reply to comment by DrJawn in TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum

Article says she was working in an office near the lab, not necessarily working on the smallpox research

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w0mpum OP t1_j9zw07b wrote

and she was vaccinated 12 years prior, but the smallpox vaccine doesn't hold up over time

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