0 an extremely infectious disease that causes a fever, spots on the skin, and often death
1 an extremely infectious viral disease that causes fever, spots on the skin, and often death:
smallpox vaccinations
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.
