Details - Public Health Image Library(PHIL)

ID#:

7625

Caption:

This 1975 photograph depicted Smallpox Eradication Team members, in the process of distributing smallpox information leaflets to a large group of villagers, primarily made up of children, who could be seen reaching for the papers held overhead. The last known case of naturally occurring smallpox, a young girl named Rahima Banu, was reported by an 8-year-old girl, who was paid her 250 Taka reward. All rewards were handed out in a public place.