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Marka (Merca), Somalia

A coastal town in Lower Shabelle, Somalia, some seventy kilometres south-west of Mogadishu, and the place where the last naturally acquired case of smallpox in the world began.

1.7, 44.8 · approximate · last natural smallpox case, October 1977

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