# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-maow-maalin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:01.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-maow-maalin"
name: "Ali Maow Maalin"
slug: "ali-maow-maalin"
description: "Ali Maow Maalin was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. The disease was diagnosed in October 1977 and Maalin made a full recovery. Although he had many contacts, none of them developed the disease, and an aggressive containment campaign was successful in preventing an outbreak. Smallpox was declared to have been eradicated globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) two years later. Maalin was subsequently involved in the successful poliomyelitis eradication campaign in Somalia, and he died of malaria while carrying out polio vaccinations after the re-emergence of the poliovirus in 2013."
tagline: "Hospital worker, last naturally acquired case of smallpox"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Ali_Maow_Maalin_%281977%29en.jpeg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1954"
deathDate: "2013-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.53
  momentum:             1.213779781068899
  historical:           6.658721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ali Maow Maalin"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Maow_Maalin"
    title: "Ali Maow Maalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Maow_Maalin"
    title: "Ali Maow Maalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Maow_Maalin"
    title: "Ali Maow Maalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アリ・マオ・マーラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "അലി മാവൊ മാലിൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Maow_Maalin"
    title: "Ali Maow Maalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4724992"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump