By: Ardis E. Parshall - February 03, 2015 I’m posting this old Tribune column of mine because of a recent discussion among Facebook friends. Smallpox arrived in Utah with an emigrant company in 1856. Epidemics of that disease would strike our citizens at least six times during the 19th century, killing thousands; even with enforcement of vaccination laws, 15,000 Utahns died of smallpox between 1900 and 1925. Its deadly nature, the ease...
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