in Germany in 1970, smallpox was transmitted in a well-vaccinated population with such speed efficiency as to raise concern about the possibilities for the dissemination of aerosolized variota. The outbreak began with a German electrician returning from Pakistan, who became sick with high fever and diarrhea and was admitted to Meschede Hospital on January 11th, 1970.
Suspecting typhoid fever, the doctors put him in isolation in a separate room on the ground floor.