“If” from front row and center at last night’s HPE celebration in Las Vegas. A big THANK YOU to Mel Avecilla who shared this with us! | 100% JANET

On August 11, 1978, 40 year old Janet Parker was working as a medical photographer at the Birmingham University Medical School in the UK. She unknowingly became the last person in history to die of smallpox. While the world was on the verge of declaring the virus officially eradicated, a laboratory on the floor below her darkroom was secretly continuing research on live samples of variola major. The horror of the case was the invisible structural failure. Investigators found that a poorly mainta