Variola vera

The 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia was the last major outbreak of smallpox in Europe. It was centered in Kosovo and Belgrade (both of them as a part of SFR Yugoslavia). A Muslim pilgrim had contracted the smallpox virus in the Middle East. Upon returning to his home in Kosovo, he started the epidemic in which 175 people were infected, 35 of whom died. The epidemic was efficiently and ruthlessly contained by enforced quarantine and mass vaccination.