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Historic smallpox records digitized to support future outbreak research
NDORMS DPhil student Rabia Khan has led a collaborative project to digitize historic records from the world's last naturally occurring smallpox outbreaks, creating an open dataset for future epidemiological and disease modeling research.
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Rabia Khan, a DPhil student at NDORMS, coordinated a project that digitized historic records from the world’s last naturally occurring smallpox outbreaks, producing an open dataset intended for future epidemiological and disease‑modeling research. The effort creates a searchable, digital archive of these rare outbreak documents to aid scientists studying potential future smallpox scenarios.
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