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smallpox

How Nepal eradicated the smallpox virus

The fourth in a series about what it took for the scourge of smallpox to be finally eradicated from Nepal in 1975.

Tom Robertson

Smallpox, politics and power in Kathmandu

The third in a series about how epidemics in the past determined the course of Nepal’s history

Tom Robertson

The smallpox virus in British India

Second instalment in a series tracking the chronic epidemic as it ravaged the subcontinent

Tom Robertson

Big story of small pox in Nepal

Recurring epidemics shaped the course of history in the Himalaya in unexpected and important ways

Tom Robertson
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