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Smallpox: the “Speckled Monster”
The Galena Gazette and Midwest Medical Center published a special section in the Gazette in 2019, “Influenza—Looking Back: Lessons Learned in 2018 & 1918.” “Influenza” was a popular read in its own right. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic. People again reached for “Influenza” to see what lessons might be learned and mistakes avoided. Many other diseases have significantly impacted the tri-state area. The Gazette will be focusing on them in a series of stories. We start with smallpox, the greatest killer in world history. There are lessons to be learned here, too.
The smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, …
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