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Events on Wednesday 26 October 1977 1
1977Last natural smallpox caseDisease declared eradicatedThe last known case of naturally occurring smallpox was diagnosed in Merca, Somalia on October 26, 1977. The WHO subsequently declared smallpox eradicated in 1980 — the only human disease to have been completely wiped out.