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Article: Lincoln suffered from deadly form of smallpox during Gettysburg speech
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- The Hindustan Times
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- May 18, 2007
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Washington, May 18 -- When on November 19, 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address, he was in the early stages of a deadly form of smallpox, a new study by two University of Texas researchers, has revealed.
Some historians, who recognized that Lincoln was ill, following his Gettysburg speech, asserted that the President was suffering from a very mild form of smallpox, one that occurs in previously immunized individuals.
However, his illness, researchers wrote in their study, was a far more serious form of smallpox that occurs in non-immunized people.
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