Keywords: Small pox 2.png en This 1969 photograph is overlooking a village in Dekina Nigeria which was the site of a smallpox outbreak of that year During the Nigerian-Biafran war members of the CDC refugee relief team were asked to investigate the possibility of a smallpox outbreak in Dekina which was located north of the Nigerian refugee camps It was here that CDC ™s Dr Lyle Conrad confirmed that patients were infected with smallpox and the CDC staff was able to contain the virus and treat many of the victims 1969 CDC http //phil cdc gov/phil/details asp CDC/ Dr Lyle Conrad other versions PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard 1969 in Nigeria Images from the CDC Public Health Image Library |