smallpox
ਚੇਚਕ
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Disease was rampant and smallpox , typhus, typhoid and dysentery made death familiar.
an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.
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Although thousands of Barbadians died from yellow fever and 'smallpox' , Quakers were particularly hard hit.
Of the biological weapons, anthrax and 'smallpox' are the most feared.
The most likely diagnosis was thought to be a severe viral infection - but not 'smallpox' .
Disease was rampant and 'smallpox' , typhus, typhoid and dysentery made death familiar.
Terrorists can bring back diseases like 'smallpox' and they can even create their own.
He seems to suffer from the impression that the vaccine is just as contagious as 'smallpox' .
Both anthrax and 'smallpox' vaccines have been in use for a long time, but there are few other similarities between them.
It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to 'smallpox' , or even measles.
Animal research has led to vaccines for rabies, 'smallpox' , rubella, measles and anthrax.
There now seems a real prospect that, like 'smallpox' , polio may be eradicated entirely from the world.
For 130 years or more after Jenner introduced a vaccine for 'smallpox' this was the only vaccine in general use.
This has been illustrated by the elimination of other viral infections such as 'smallpox' .
The process induced cowpox, a mild viral disease that conferred immunity to 'smallpox' .
As a naturally occurring disease 'smallpox' is potent and as a weapon of biological warfare it is terrifying.
Anthrax just isn't the public health disaster that 'smallpox' has the potential to be.
Polio will be the second disease after 'smallpox' to be eradicated.
Who knew until it was too late that the blankets were ridden with 'smallpox' and other communicable diseases!
There have been few articles on the risks of 'smallpox' or of the vaccine in the popular media.
Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, was a supporter of 'smallpox' vaccination.
Malnutrition was rife, as were diseases such as tuberculosis and 'smallpox' .
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