Rahima Banu

Rahima Banu
Banu in 1975
Born
Rahima Banu Begum

(1972-10-16) October 16, 1972 (age 51)
NationalityBangladeshi

Rahima Banu Begum (Bengali: রহিমা বানু বেগম; born 16 October 1972)[1] is the last known person to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola major smallpox, the more deadly variety of the disease.[2][3]

  1. ^ Goodfield, June (1991). A Chance to Live. Macmillan Publishing Company. p. 4. ISBN 9780025446557.
  2. ^ Tucker, Jonathan B. (2016). Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. Grove Press. p. 112. ISBN 9780802139399.
  3. ^ Pendergrast, Mark (2010). Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-15-101120-9.