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This is the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Petra Jevich. Back in 1972 the last outbreak of smallpox in Europe was successfully tackled in the former

Yugoslavia by a mass vaccination drive.

I've been speaking to virologist Anna Glegic, who helped stop the outbreak.

Smallpox, a contagious disease caused by the variola virus, caused millions of deaths over the centuries before it was eradicated in 1980.

The eradication of smallpox from all over the world is truly a historic event in the annals of medicine and public health.

But before it became the first infectious disease to be fully eradicated in human history,

it shook Europe once again in the spring of 1972.

The symptoms of smallpox are fever, headache, sore throat, swelling in the upper respiratory

track and it's usually spread when infected people cough or sneeze and by direct contact with

skin rash content.

Anna Gleggage was head of the laboratory at the Institute of Biology and Vaccines in Belgrade,

capital of the former Communist Yugoslavia, where vaccination against smallpox had been

going on since 1881. Dr Anna was surprised when someone knocked on her door one evening in March 1972.

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