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Prof Alasdair Geddes, CBE, 89, medical boffin

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Subject: Prof Alasdair Geddes, CBE, 89, medical boffin
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:06:37 +0000
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by: Mig.Rhodes - Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:06 UTC

Alasdair Geddes, CBE, who has died aged 89, was a British medical doctor who was Professor of Infection at the University of Birmingham Medical School. In 1978, as the World Health Organization (WHO) was shortly to announce that the world's last case of smallpox had occurred a year earlier in Somalia, Geddes diagnosed a British woman with the disease in Birmingham, England. She was found to be the index case of the outbreak and became the world's last reported fatality due to the disease, five years after he had gained experience on the frontline of the WHO's smallpox eradication programme in Bangladesh in 1973.

Chicken Little was right.

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Prof Alasdair Geddes, CBE, 89, medical boffin	Mig.Rhodes