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This 1970 image depicted Dr. James H. Nakano, analyzing collected data, while seated at his desk. Dr. Nakano designed, and directed the smallpox laboratory (completed in 1967), which later evolved into one of the world’s primary reference centers, using an electron microscope as the primary method for rapid diagnosis of smallpox, surpassing other methods in speed and reliability. The smallpox lab work was instrumental in delineating the strengths and weaknesses of various lab diagnostic methods, demonstrating that no reservoir of smallpox could be maintained in wild animals; in differentiating among various pox diseases including parapoxvirus; in testing the possible survival of the smallpox virus in materials used for variolation.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Dan F. Palmer
Creation Date: 1970
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Copyright Restrictions: None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions.