The practice of variolation came to Europe from the East at the beginning of the 18th century by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, and English

Throughout the 1800's and 1900's, the use of widespread vaccinations became commonplace. The impact of Jenner's vaccine was so great that, in 1805, Napoleon himself insisted that all his troops should be vaccinated. By 1950, North America, Central America and Europe were virtually free from the disease. Jenner had fist proposed the idea of worldwide eradication of smallpox by vaccination in 1801, but it took until 1965 for the World Health Organization (WHO) to get such a program underway. As a result of that program, the last natural occurrence of smallpox was treated in 1977 in Somalia. Since then there has only been one other case of smallpox, which was caused by a laboratory mishap in 1978. Victory was declared in the war against smallpox on May 8, 1980 when the WHO declared that smallpox had been completely eradicated (Hopkins 174). Although, throughout history attempts have been made to contain smallpox by variolation and other methods,

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