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ID#:

7164

Caption:

This 1969 photograph was captured while overlooking a crowd of people in the streets of Dekina, Nigeria, which was the site of a smallpox outbreak that same year. During the Nigerian-Biafran war, members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refugee relief team, were asked to investigate the possibility of a smallpox outbreak in Dekina, which was located north of the Nigerian refugee camps. It was here, that CDC’s Dr. Lyle Conrad, confirmed that patients were infected with smallpox, and the CDC staff was able to contain the virus, and treat many of the victims.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC/ Dr. Lyle Conrad

Creation Date:

1969

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