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'''Ali Maow Maalin''' was the last person in the world known to be infected with naturally occurring [[smallpox]]. At age 23, Maalin was a cook at the hospital in the town of [[Merca]], [[Somalia]], as well as an occasional vaccinator for a [[World Health Organization]] smallpox eradication team. In October 1977, he went out to meet two children with smallpox symptoms being brought in from an outlying village. On 26 October 1977, he was diagnosed with an infection of [[alastrim]], the [[Variola minor]] strain of smallpox. |
'''Ali Maow Maalin''' was the last person in the world known to be infected with naturally occurring [[smallpox]]. At age 23, Maalin was a cook at the hospital in the town of [[Merca]], [[Somalia]], as well as an occasional vaccinator for a [[World Health Organization]] smallpox eradication team, though Maalin had not himself received the [[smallpox vaccine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/smallpox | title = Interview with D.A. Henderson, sourced at History of Vaccines website | first=D.A. |last=Henderson | date=15 October 2010 | accessdate=15 October 2010| publisher=[[College of Physicians of Philadelphia]]}}</ref> In October 1977, he went out to meet two children with smallpox symptoms being brought in from an outlying village. On 26 October 1977, he was diagnosed with an infection of [[alastrim]], the [[Variola minor]] strain of smallpox. Maalin was "quite popular" and received "hundreds of visitors."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/smallpox | title = Interview with D.A. Henderson, sourced at History of Vaccines website | first=D.A. |last=Henderson | date=15 October 2010 | accessdate=15 October 2010| publisher=[[College of Physicians of Philadelphia]]}}</ref> This necessitated a concerted effort by the [[World Health Organization]] to ensure that his case, the last on earth, would not spread further. He subsequently recovered fully. |
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Maalin volunteered in the successful effort to eradicate [[polio]] in Somalia in 2008.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7312603.stm "War-torn Somalia eradicates polio"], [[BBC News]], 25 March 2008</ref> |
Maalin volunteered in the successful effort to eradicate [[polio]] in Somalia in 2008.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7312603.stm "War-torn Somalia eradicates polio"], [[BBC News]], 25 March 2008</ref> |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* [http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/smallpox History of Vaccines website - Smallpox], published by the [[College of Physicians of Philadelphia]] |
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* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/video/d_sma1_dis_smallpox2.html The End of Smallpox: Part II - The Last Case], PBS Rx for Survival, streaming video |
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/video/d_sma1_dis_smallpox2.html The End of Smallpox: Part II - The Last Case], PBS Rx for Survival, streaming video |
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Revision as of 17:37, 15 October 2010
Ali Maow Maalin was the last person in the world known to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. At age 23, Maalin was a cook at the hospital in the town of Merca, Somalia, as well as an occasional vaccinator for a World Health Organization smallpox eradication team, though Maalin had not himself received the smallpox vaccine.[1] In October 1977, he went out to meet two children with smallpox symptoms being brought in from an outlying village. On 26 October 1977, he was diagnosed with an infection of alastrim, the Variola minor strain of smallpox. Maalin was "quite popular" and received "hundreds of visitors."[2] This necessitated a concerted effort by the World Health Organization to ensure that his case, the last on earth, would not spread further. He subsequently recovered fully.
Maalin volunteered in the successful effort to eradicate polio in Somalia in 2008.[3]
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Henderson, D.A. (15 October 2010). "Interview with D.A. Henderson, sourced at History of Vaccines website". College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ^ Henderson, D.A. (15 October 2010). "Interview with D.A. Henderson, sourced at History of Vaccines website". College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ^ "War-torn Somalia eradicates polio", BBC News, 25 March 2008
External links
- History of Vaccines website - Smallpox, published by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- The End of Smallpox: Part II - The Last Case, PBS Rx for Survival, streaming video
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