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In 1978, an Ethiopian health officer investigates a rumor of smallpox. He shows villagers a photo of a victim and asks "Have you seen anyone with a rash like this?" The answer was no—and the rumor was wrong. Smallpox had been eradicated the year before. Photograph by Marion Kaplan