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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Kelly Kearsley / The Bulletin
December 8, 2002
No one knows what would happen if a smallpox outbreak occurred in Central Oregon.
What public health officials do know is that the disease, which was declared eradicated from the world in 1980, is highly contagious, disfiguring and has a fatality rate of 30 percent.
Smallpox spreads so quickly....
