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Smallpox
Smallpox Small"pox`, n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.)
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized
by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at
first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first
flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and
finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often
leaving a pit, or scar.
Meaning of Smallpox from wikipedia
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Smallpox was an
infectious disease caused by
variola virus (often
called smallpox virus),
which belongs to the
genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally...
- The
smallpox vaccine is the
first vaccine to have been
developed against a
contagious disease. In 1796,
British physician Edward Jenner demonstrated that...
- The
Smallpox Hospital,
sometimes referred to as the
Renwick Smallpox Hospital and
later the
Maternity and
Charity Hospital Training School, was a hospital...
- The
history of
smallpox extends into pre-history.
Genetic evidence suggests that the
smallpox virus emerged 3,000 to 4,000
years ago.
Prior to that, similar...
- The 1978
smallpox outbreak in the
United Kingdom resulted in the
death of
Janet Parker, a
British medical photographer, who
became the last
recorded person...
-
Smallpox 2002:
Silent Weapon is a
fictional docudrama produced by Wall to Wall,
showing how a
single act of
bioterrorism leads to
terrifying consequences...
-
Organization (WHO) was
shortly to
announce that the world's last case of
smallpox had
occurred a year
earlier in Somalia,
Geddes diagnosed a
British woman...
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referred to as “
smallpox”.
Watkin Tench, a
captain in the Marines,
wrote that, "Pustules,
similar to
those occasioned in the
smallpox, were
thickly spread...
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Overview of
globalization and
disease transmission History of
smallpox –
Impact of
smallpox on
world history List of
Ebola outbreaks –
Cases and outbreaks...
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physician and
scientist who
pioneered the
concept of
vaccines and
created the
smallpox vaccine, the world's
first vaccine. The
terms vaccine and
vaccination are...
