The correct answer is that the case fatality rate of the Pacific Pox must be high.
A case fatality rate is the ratio of deaths due to a certain disease (throughout the duration of the disease in question). In this scenario, since there are no survivors left, the proportion of deaths among the people who had this disease is obviously rather high.
January 15, 1929: ·Martin Luther King, Jr. is born
September 20, 1944: ·King enters Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia
June 1948: ·King graduates from Morehouse College with a Bachelor's Degree in sociology
September 1948: ·King enters Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania
June 1951: ·King graduates with a Bachelor's Degree in Divinity studies
September 1951: ·King enters Boston University
June 18, 1953: ·King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama
May 17, 1954: ·United States Supreme Court rules segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
October 31, 1954: ·King becomes pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama
June 5, 1955: ·King receives his PhD from Boston University
November 17, 1955: ·King's first child, Yolanda Denise, is born
December 1, 1955: ·Rosa Parks is arrested for disobeying segregationist policies on a Montgomery bus
December 5, 1955: ·Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
January 30, 1956: ·King's home is bombed
November 13, 1956: ·United States Supreme Court rules bus segregation unconstitutional
January 1957: ·Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms in Atlanta, electing King president
February 1957: ·King is featured on the cover of Time Magazine
October 23, 1957: ·King's second child, Martin Luther King III, is born
September 17, 1958: ·King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story is published
September 20, 1958: ·A mentally ill black woman stabs King in at a Harlem book- signing
February 1959: ·King studies non-violent tactics during a trip to India
January 1960: ·King returns to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
October 19, 1960: ·King is arrested in Atlanta, at one of hundreds of sit-ins that occur throughout the year
January 30, 1961: ·King's third child, Dexter Scott, is born
May 1961: ·King assists in negotiations for the Freedom Riders
December 1961: ·King goes to Albany Georgia, to aid a desegregation campaign, and is arrested
July 27, 1962: ·King is arrested again in Albany
March 28, 1963: ·King's fourth child, Bernice Albertina, is born
April 1963: ·King spends a week in a Birmingham, Alabama jail and writes a letter to the nation
May 3-5, 1963: ·Police attack protestors in Birmingham
June 1963: ·King's second book, a collection of sermons, Strength to Love is published
August 28, 1963: ·250,000 people march on Washington, and King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech
December 3, 1963: ·King meets with Lyndon Johnson to discuss civil rights legislation
January 1964: · Time Magazine names King "Man of the Year"
June 1964: ·King's book Why We Can't Wait is published.
July 1964: ·The Civil Rights Act is signed into law
September 18, 1964: ·King meets with Pope Pius VI
December 10, 1964: ·King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway
February 2, 1965: ·King arrested in Selma, Alabama, during voter-registration drive
February 21, 1965: ·Malcolm X is assassinated
March 1965: ·King leads a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery
August 1965: ·President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law
August 1965: ·Massive rioting occurs in Watts, California
August 1965: ·King begins to speak out against the Vietnam War
February 1966: ·King moves to Chicago to commence a SCLC campaign there
June 1966: ·Stokely Carmichael popularizes Black Power as a civil rights rallying cry
July 1966: ·King leads demonstrations in Chicago
April 4, 1967: ·King delivers his first sermon devoted entirely to the issue of Vietnam
November 27, 1967: ·King announces his vision of a Poor People's March on Washington
March 28, 1968: ·King leads a march of black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee
April 4, 1968: ·King is assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis
