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Patterns of smallpox mortality in London, England, over three centuries

2019-09-16

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Smallpox is unique among infectious diseases in the degree to which it devasted human populations, its long history of control interventions, and the fact that it has been successfully eradicated. Mortality from smallpox in London, England, was carefully documented, weekly, for nearly 300 years, providing a rare and valuable source for the study of ecology and evolution of infectious disease. We describe and analy...

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Literature Corpus work: c034c408-983c-51ed-a20b-0dbed825fbb4
DOI: 10.1101/771220

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