When the Spanish finally entered the capital in the summer of 1521, they saw it strewn with the bodies of smallpox victims.

Like all smallpox victims, he was at serious risk of dying, but he survived the disease.

He founded the first cathedral in Rheims and is the patron saint of smallpox victims.

No one can be sure where the first smallpox victims might seek treatment.

They are the very individuals who would be required to treat not only potential smallpox victims but all patients, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Historical records showed that it was common for smallpox victims to be abandoned by their families and neighbors.

The impersonation of a smallpox victim was the crucial role in this masquerade.

The Spaniards said that they could not walk through the streets without stepping on the bodies of smallpox victims.

Today, smallpox victims would be put into intensive care units, and many people with different specialties would treat them.

Residents were so angry that, decades later, they finally removed the smallpox victims from the hospital and burned it down.