Janet Parker
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Janet Parker (March 1938 – 11 September 1978) was a British medical photographer who became the last person to die from smallpox. She was exposed to the virus as a result of laboratory accident at the University of Birmingham Medical School. Parker was born in Birmingham, UK, and worked as a medical photographer in the Anatomy Department of the University of Birmingham Medical School, where she was accidentally exposed to a strain of smallpox virus that was grown in a research laboratory on the floor below the Anatomy Department. Her death led to the suicide of Henry Bedson, then Head of the Microbiology Department.
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