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Professor Alasdair Geddes, who has died aged 89, was an expert in infectious diseases who diagnosed smallpox in the last recorded person to die of the disease anywhere in the world; later, following the September 11 attacks, he became an adviser on bioterrorism for the Department of Health.
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From Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in the 1970s a Soviet cover up of 'Biological Chernobyl', to extinct polio being found in a Dutch sewer in lab leaks of pathogens are not as rare as you might think.
As monkeypox spreads across Europe, experts argue the rise of the virus is linked to declining protection against its far deadlier cousin
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