Was smallpox a pandemic or epidemic?
The Franco-Prussian War triggered a smallpox pandemic of 1870โ1875 that claimed 500,000 lives; while vaccination was mandatory in the Prussian army, many French soldiers were not vaccinated. Smallpox outbreaks among French prisoners of war spread to the German civilian population and other parts of Europe. How many people died from smallpox? One of historyโs deadliest โฆ