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
The coal pits, like the rest of the country, did not escape smallpox.
These simulations begin to quantify and examine some of the policy issues surrounding a release of smallpox.
All of the patients who were treated had advanced metastatic tumours; furthermore, they had all been vaccinated with smallpox (vaccinia).
The polio study, for example, reveals that it might be possible to produce the smallpox virus through similar procedures.
However, as long as endemic foci of human infection exist, the introduction of smallpox into countries where it is unknown remains a constant possibility.
Although he died of tuberculosis, there was no sign of the equally virulent smallpox, against which both brothers had been vaccinated in childhood.
More fearsome is the possibility that the straightforward technique used on mousepox could allow the genetic engineering of vaccine-resistant smallpox.
We estimated the fraction of the population susceptible, transmission potential and infection distributions from the published literature on the natural history of smallpox.
