Article: Lincoln suffered from deadly form of smallpox during Gettysburg speech

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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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