Voorbeelden van smallpox

• But the number of countries where smallpox has been endemic fell from 30 in 1967 to four in 1973.

• This time there was plenty of fighting in strange jungle conditions, where the troops were furthermore stricken with smallpox.

• Secondly, deaths attributable to cholera, smallpox and even some to 'fever' were due to epidemics unrelated to the famine.

• Prior to admission, all children were given a cowpox vaccination to prevent smallpox and the orphanages employed a doctor who provided the necessary medical care.

• The study of immunity cannot be complete without mention of smallpox.

• At present such legislation does not appear to be relevant to smallpox virus which however does present a particular paradox.

• Although the smallpox virus is much larger than polio, the technical feasibility of artificially synthesizing smallpox is perhaps dubious.

• We estimated the fraction of the population susceptible, transmission potential and infection distributions from the published literature on the natural history of smallpox.

• More fearsome is the possibility that the straightforward technique used on mousepox could allow the genetic engineering of vaccine-resistant smallpox.

• Although he died of tuberculosis, there was no sign of the equally virulent smallpox, against which both brothers had been vaccinated in childhood.

• However, as long as endemic foci of human infection exist, the introduction of smallpox into countries where it is unknown remains a constant possibility.

• The polio study, for example, reveals that it might be possible to produce the smallpox virus through similar procedures.

• All of the patients who were treated had advanced metastatic tumours; furthermore, they had all been vaccinated with smallpox (vaccinia).

• These simulations begin to quantify and examine some of the policy issues surrounding a release of smallpox.

• The coal pits, like the rest of the country, did not escape smallpox.