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smallpox · Variola
smallpox killed about 300 million people in the twentieth century. it has killed nobody since 1978.
method WHO; Fenner et al. 1988.
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how this number is built
- method
- WHO; Fenner et al. 1988.
- range
- 20th-century deaths 300–500 million
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- none material.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-082 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0