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Sentence Examples Today, the Government revealed its plans to vaccinate key workers against smallpox. Although smallpox can be spread by air currents, close face-to-face contact is far more effective. The Act was repealed in 1822 after Smith caused a smallpox epidemic in Tarboro, North Carolina. The smallpox dilemma has no simple answers, and making the correct decision may, literally, be a matter of life and death. First of all, smallpox, anthrax, and the like are hard to spread effectively. On the other hand, smallpox has been eradicated, sleeping sickness has become rare, and polio and leprosy are under control. Cholera, plague, smallpox, malaria, kalaazar, leprosy and venereal diseases are the others considered. Terrorists can bring back diseases like smallpox and they can even create their own. In 1796, Jenner began to infect people first with the far more benign cowpox and then with smallpox. Epidemic smallpox surfaced first in Boston, that hotbed of revolutionary fervor. These will detail the effects of smallpox, anthrax, mustard gas and other chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards. Generations will remember the long, anxious waits for the jab to save them from the deadly smallpox virus. Bisenova had been vaccinated, but she came down with smallpox anyway, then passed it along to several other people. The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an apocalyptic Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist. Animal research has led to vaccines for rabies, smallpox, rubella, measles and anthrax. There are a number of factors which complicate choices about smallpox either for governments or for individuals. Cholera, for instance, smallpox, and venereal disease infected large tracts of the population, often very quickly. In case of smallpox or varioloid take the remedy in water one teaspoonful every two or three hours till recovery. He was emphatic that chickenpox was not a milder version of smallpox and that the two were distinct maladies. Why wait until our children are dying of smallpox or our cities are burning? Show More Sentences However, smallpox vaccination usually is not a reason to terminate a pregnancy. As the theatre of war moved south, so did the smallpox, primarily affecting civilians, camp followers, and irregular troops in both armies. In the autumn of 1863, Lincoln's physician told him that he was suffering from varioloid, a mild form of smallpox. Or better yet, it can be implanted in time-release form right under that smallpox vaccine scar. Although smallpox has no known cure or specific treatment, the disease was beaten with a massive, worldwide immunization campaign. In Downie's day, smallpox work was done on wooden benches in the open laboratory. To measles we can add smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, typhus, typhoid, influenza and syphilis. By the turn of the century, smallpox had nearly eliminated the Haida people. As a naturally occurring disease smallpox is potent and as a weapon of biological warfare it is terrifying. What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox? Stores of smallpox, however, are kept in a few places around the world and could be used in biowarfare. There have been few articles on the risks of smallpox or of the vaccine in the popular media. It suggested that immunizing humans against smallpox might protect them against genetically engineered variola as well. We have produced a great deal of smallpox vaccine and are in the process of purchasing over two million phials of vaccine. The minister identified plague, ebola, smallpox, anthrax, tularaemia and botulism as the main biological threats. The information on these pages contain basic information to begin educating the nurses of Alabama regarding smallpox vaccinations. Today monkeypox is not spreading fast, but the slow decline of immunization to smallpox may nudge monkeypox up into the breakout zone. The world has recently seen an emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases such as smallpox, SARS, West Nile virus, and monkeypox. He used the mild disease cowpox to confer immunity for the potentially fatal but biochemically similar smallpox. Life expectancy has risen, and many diseases, including plague, smallpox, cholera, and typhus, have been eliminated. Show More Sentences The live vaccinia virus that is used for the smallpox vaccination is admittedly the most dangerous vaccine in use. To protect a healthy person forever from smallpox, hydrophobia, diptheria and so on, the doctor gives him those very diseases. He is currently engaged in research on smallpox immunization policy, syndromic surveillance, and measurement of public health preparedness. Infectious disease experts say that the agents of greatest concern are the germs that cause anthrax, smallpox, plague, botulism and tularemia. In the final two chapters, Koplow makes his final case against the extermination of the remaining smallpox stockpiles. Between then and 1902 data were collected on cholera, smallpox, plague, and yellow fever. One uses the vaccinia virus, a relatively harmless virus used in smallpox vaccines, and the second uses the fowlpox vaccine. Jenner waited only four years before declaring that the vaccine that he named vaccinia provided immunity from smallpox for life. A surveyor's report found that the smallpox isolation hospital at Winterburn was in a poor state. What is your view on vaccinating the general public before a smallpox outbreak is detected? Next in line was saving the world from smallpox, chicken cholera, rabies and anthrax. Normal reactions to smallpox vaccination include erythema, edema, regional lymphadenopathy, fever, malaise, and urticaria. He has anthrax, he has smallpox, he has the plague, he has mustard gas, he has nerve gas. A patient exhibiting a low-grade fever, sniffles, and a cough is most likely suffering from a common cold and not smallpox! Dr Edmiston explained how anthrax, smallpox variola virus, botulism, and pneumonic plague fit the criteria. From his groin to his knees, his skin was indented with hollows like large smallpox scars. A case of smallpox anywhere in the world would represent a global health emergency. Although thousands of Barbadians died from yellow fever and smallpox, Quakers were particularly hard hit. Only four years into her reign she had been struck down by the dreaded smallpox, which had already killed so many that year. Her skin was marked by the scars of smallpox so she held her face to the light, and imagined it to be the pitted moon. Show More Sentences He showed that cowpox vaccination prevented smallpox in a child deliberately exposed to the disease. The day following a smallpox vaccination, a child of 1 year developed severe pneumonitis. For 130 years or more after Jenner introduced a vaccine for smallpox this was the only vaccine in general use. Anthrax just isn't the public health disaster that smallpox has the potential to be. Vaccination of smallpox started in the late 18th century with Jenner's cowpox vaccine. Disease was rampant and smallpox, typhus, typhoid and dysentery made death familiar. Both anthrax and smallpox vaccines have been in use for a long time, but there are few other similarities between them. The process induced cowpox, a mild viral disease that conferred immunity to smallpox. In February 1776, smallpox appeared among Dunmore's troops, who had established a precarious camp on a spit of land near Portsmouth, Virginia. He seems to suffer from the impression that the vaccine is just as contagious as smallpox. This has been illustrated by the elimination of other viral infections such as smallpox. Access to stockpiled vaccine is restricted to containing epidemiologically and virologically confirmed outbreaks of smallpox. In the event of a smallpox outbreak, the federal government is prepared with enough vaccine to inoculate everyone who would need it. There now seems a real prospect that, like smallpox, polio may be eradicated entirely from the world. When you get the smallpox vaccine, the virus in the inoculant can be transmitted to people around you. It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to smallpox, or even measles. Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, was a supporter of smallpox vaccination. Who knew until it was too late that the blankets were ridden with smallpox and other communicable diseases! Not everyone in a city with a smallpox contagion is going to catch it, so the overall mortality for a population center would be less than that. The vaccine is freeze-dried, live vaccinia virus, a poxvirus related to smallpox virus. Show More Sentences The pleasure we derive from being with others, along with our wanderlust and desire to explore, sets the stage nicely for smallpox. Do you believe that right now there are people in this world trying to weaponize smallpox and other viruses, and succeeding? Ken Alibek has alleged that the Soviets had a program to weaponize smallpox. It is estimated that a half of the US population is now susceptible to smallpox. Vaccinia immune globulin is a first-line therapy for certain adverse reactions to smallpox vaccine. They decimated the population by introducing diseases such as whooping cough, measles, and smallpox. That was when whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria and smallpox were routine. The principal recorded killers were smallpox, influenza, measles, typhoid, typhus, chickenpox, whooping cough, tuberculosis and syphilis. He looks wistfully down from the second-story balcony of the smallpox pavilion. The General Hospital, Chennai, was then a nodal centre for smallpox eradication. Making a clinical diagnosis, and, in particular, differentiating smallpox from varicella, is difficult even when those concerned are seeing both diseases regularly. Finally, with the new risks of bioterrorism, emergency physicians need to lead in the early diagnosis of illnesses such as anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularaemia, and botulism. In many places, it was custom to place huts outside the villages for smallpox victims. The conquest of major epidemic diseases such as the plague and smallpox was an important contribution, but vulnerability to disease had persisted as a result of poor health. It ended with his disownment and, in 1871, his sudden death from smallpox. The story of the elimination of smallpox is in itself an exhilarating one. Of the biological weapons, anthrax and smallpox are the most feared. Because smallpox is typically transmitted via direct contact with an infected person, the presence of smallpox could be recognized by the appearance of symptoms. His invention of facts surrounding the smallpox epidemic among the Mandan Indians in 1837 is more reprehensible than his misrepresentation of the Dawes Act. The United States has decided to embark on increasing the vaccine stores available for smallpox vaccination and has developed a plan to reinstitute vaccination. Show More Sentences In the 18th century, German immigrants coming to Pennsylvania boarded ships plagued with typhus, dysentery, smallpox, and scurvy. Then the immune-impaired and those susceptible to vaccinia complications could be inoculated against vaccinia while everyone else is inoculated against smallpox. He invented a story about the US Army deliberately creating a smallpox epidemic among the Mandan people in 1837 by distributing infected blankets. In addition, endemic diseases, such as yaws, and epidemic diseases, such as measles and smallpox, may have increased the incidence of stillbirths and miscarriages. Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain's increasingly crowded streets. He was said to have been messianic in his zeal to make vaccinations mandatory because of his alleged stockpile of smallpox that, needless to say, never turned up. For example, vaccinia immune globulin, or VIG, is stored and ready for the next person who becomes ill from smallpox vaccine. Having been inoculated with cowpox, Phipps was now immune to smallpox. In addition, it is believed to have about 5,000 tons of chemical and biological agents, including sarin, anthrax, smallpox and the bubonic plague. Mortality rates dropped with the control of such contagions as smallpox, but tuberculosis continued to be a major problem that retarded population growth. Polio will be the second disease after smallpox to be eradicated. Malnutrition was rife, as were diseases such as tuberculosis and smallpox. As a member of the baby boomer generation, who was immunized as a child against smallpox, is that immunity still good, or would we have to be revaccinated if the need arose? In it, Mather the Elder gave special thanks to God for the devastating plague of smallpox which wiped out the majority of the Wampanoag Indians who had been their benefactors. Because most of the U.S. population is considered unprotected against the disease, there is debate over whether smallpox vaccination should resume. But my request to interview D.A. Henderson, the famed smallpox eradicator and head of the newly created Office of Public Health Preparedness at HHS, was rebuffed. One correctly pointed out that if universal smallpox vaccination were offered, those who couldn't be immunized would be protected by herd immunity. It is now believed that smallpox specimens exists in secret storage facilities and at some point may be weaponized and delivered to human populations. While experts think a smallpox or sarin gas attack is less likely than another conventional assault, the anthrax cases in West Palm Beach have made people very nervous. The only places the smallpox virus are known to exist today are storage facilities at the CDC and in Russia. Show More Sentences She shoulders a surprisingly long spear, perhaps to ward off the ardent king, although by that time she had been scarred by smallpox and he had mostly given up his advances. Your book deals with the once and future threat of smallpox. The commander of the continental Army realized that if he did not inoculate his army against smallpox, he might not have an army. It is known, however, that smallpox cannot be spread by an animal carrier, and therefore that method of transmission does not need to be considered. I believe you are right, although smallpox, when it ran rampant, was generally transmitted from respiratory mucoid droplets transmitted from a person sick with smallpox. He studied the habits of wasps, death-watch beetles and migrating birds, and corresponded with Hans Sloane on smallpox and the noises made by unborn children in the womb. Anti-vax sentiments have, in fact, been around since Edward Jenner first demonstrated the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine in the late 18th century. Beginning in Colombia, smallpox spread rapidly before the Spanish invaders first arrived in the empire. Putting aside passages which might possibly apply to great-pox, smallpox was evidently well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. During this time, pandemics of European disease such as smallpox devastated the indigenous populations. When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him? Later in the year, following Elizabeth's illness with smallpox, the succession question became a heated issue in Parliament. In fact, her skin had been scarred by smallpox in 1562, leaving her half bald and dependent on wigs and cosmetics. Mary II died of smallpox on 28 December 1694, leaving William III to rule alone. The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy. During this time, he was inoculated for smallpox, which had a lifelong effect upon his general health. By 1768, English physician John Fewster had realised that prior infection with cowpox rendered a person immune to smallpox. Francisco Javier de Balmis with the aim of giving thousands the smallpox vaccine. In 1803 in London, he became president of the Jennerian Society, concerned with promoting vaccination to eradicate smallpox. Returning to London in 1811, Jenner observed a significant number of cases of smallpox after vaccination. Show More Sentences In 1979, the World Health Organization declared smallpox an eradicated disease. She returned to London and had her daughter variolated in 1721 by Charles Maitland, during an epidemic of smallpox. During the earlier days of empirical experimentation in 1758, American Calvinist Jonathan Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation. He observed that people who caught cowpox while working with cattle were known not to catch smallpox. Crucially all of at least four who Jenner deliberately inoculated with smallpox virus resisted it. He concluded that cowpox inoculation was a safe alternative to smallpox inoculation, but rashly claimed that the protective effect was lifelong. However Fewster, who had a flourishing variolation practice, may have considered this option but used smallpox instead. A major contribution to smallpox vaccination was made in the 1960s by Benjamin Rubin, an American microbiologist working for Wyeth Laboratories. However, even as the disease was being eradicated there still remained stocks of smallpox virus in many laboratories. A woman planning on conceiving within one month should not receive the smallpox immunization until after the pregnancy. As with smallpox, vaccination after infection is effective if the vaccine is given before symptoms develop. Both the smallpox vaccine and HIV exploit a receptor called CCR5, which is expressed on the surface of white blood cells. However no randomized trials testing the effect of smallpox vaccine on overall mortality and morbidity have been conducted. They were also responsible for vaccination of persons against smallpox, and immunisation against diphtheria and other diseases. In July, Caroline fell seriously ill with smallpox, and George caught the infection after staying by her side devotedly during her illness. In 1980, the agency announced that the eradication of smallpox had been completed. Between 1775 and 1782 a smallpox epidemic swept across North America, killing 40 people in Boston alone. Under the direction of Mountstuart Elphinstone a program was launched to propagate smallpox vaccination. Mass vaccination in India resulted in a major decline in smallpox mortality by the end of the 19th century. Potentially lethal diseases, such as smallpox and influenza, were so virulent that their spread was independent of nutrition. Show More Sentences Since its creation, it has played a leading role in the eradication of smallpox. The initial problem the WHO team faced was inadequate reporting of smallpox cases. A great smallpox epidemic in the 18th century killed around a third of the population. At some point in her infancy or childhood, she caught smallpox, but it did not mark her features. As was typical in wars of the era, diseases such as smallpox claimed more lives than battle. Between 1775 and 1782, a smallpox epidemic broke out throughout North America, killing 40 people in Boston alone. Its use spread through medieval monasteries, largely for medicinal purposes, such as the treatment of colic and smallpox. Some examples of infectious diseases spread from animals to humans are influenza, smallpox, and measles. It is possible that most of its inhabitants died from smallpox introduced by travelers before the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the area. These groups moved little until the close of the 18th century, when their populations were sharply reduced by smallpox and other epidemics. The Mandan were first plagued by smallpox in the 16th century and had been hit by similar epidemics every few decades. Army deliberately spread smallpox to Mandan Indians at Fort Clark in 1837, using infected blankets. They had no immunity to European diseases, so outbreaks of measles and smallpox ravaged their population. Sickness and diseases such as, dysentery, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever used in preparing medicine. The name comes from the multiude of surface pits in the outer gelcoat layer which resembles smallpox. One immediate consequence was a series of epidemics of European diseases such as measles, smallpox and tuberculosis. In the 19th century, smallpox was the principal cause of Aboriginal deaths, and was listed in the inventory of goods brought by the first fleet. There is contention as to whether smallpox was deliberately introduced, or spread from Macassan traders from the north. Introduced diseases, notably smallpox, nearly wiped out the native population of Easter Island. By 1832, the federal government of the United States established a smallpox vaccination program for Native Americans. Show More Sentences In the 1690s, smallpox epidemics reduced Yukagir numbers by an estimated 44 percent. Throughout the Ming dynasty, around fifty texts were published on the treatment of smallpox. In 1516, a smallpox epidemic killed an additional 8,000, of the remaining 11,000 Indians, in one month. Along with the Jesuit missions later came disease among the natives, among them plague and smallpox. Spanish settlers brought to the American continent smallpox, typhoid fever, and other diseases. The population decline was primarily the result of communicable diseases, particularly smallpox, introduced during the Columbian Exchange. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. As recently as the early 1950s, an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year. Infection with smallpox is focused in small blood vessels of the skin and in the mouth and throat before disseminating. Ninety percent or more of smallpox cases among unvaccinated persons were of the ordinary type. Ordinary smallpox generally produced a discrete rash, in which the pustules stood out on the skin separately. Patients with confluent smallpox often remained ill even after scabs have formed over all the lesions. Hemorrhagic smallpox is a severe form that is accompanied by extensive bleeding into the skin, mucous membranes, and gastrointestinal tract. This form of smallpox occurs in anywhere from 3 to 25 percent of fatal cases depending on the virulence of the smallpox strain. Rarely, smallpox has been spread by virus carried in the air in enclosed settings such as buildings, buses, and trains. Infectivity wanes in 7 to 10 days when scabs form over the lesions, but the infected person is contagious until the last smallpox scab falls off. In temperate areas, the number of smallpox infections were highest during the winter and spring. If a clinical case is observed, smallpox is confirmed using laboratory tests. They are found in virtually all poxvirus infections but the absence of Guarnieri bodies cannot be used to rule out smallpox. A variety of laboratory methods are available for detecting chickenpox in evaluation of suspected smallpox cases. Show More Sentences In contrast to the rash in smallpox, the rash in chickenpox occurs mostly on the torso, spreading less to the limbs. However, because the person was infected with variola virus, a severe infection could result, and the person could transmit smallpox to others. The procedure was much safer than variolation, and did not involve a risk of smallpox transmission. During the 19th century, the cowpox virus used for smallpox vaccination was replaced by vaccinia virus. The current formulation of smallpox vaccine is a live virus preparation of infectious vaccinia virus. Historically, the vaccine has been effective in preventing smallpox infection in 95 percent of those vaccinated. Flat and hemorrhagic types of smallpox are treated with the same therapies used to treat shock, such as fluid resuscitation. In fatal cases of ordinary smallpox, death usually occurs between the tenth and sixteenth days of the illness. The cause of death from smallpox is not clear, but the infection is now known to involve multiple organs. In early hemorrhagic smallpox, death occurs suddenly about six days after the fever develops. Complications of smallpox arise most commonly in the respiratory system and range from simple bronchitis to fatal pneumonia. Secondary bacterial infection of the skin is a relatively uncommon complication of smallpox. In 2 to 5 percent of young children with smallpox, virions reach the joints and bone, causing osteomyelitis variolosa. At least seven religious deities have been specifically dedicated to smallpox, such as the god Sopona in the Yoruba religion. In India, the Hindu goddess of smallpox, Sitala Mata, was worshiped in temples throughout the country. One viewpoint is smallpox emerged 1588AD and the earlier reported cases were incorrectly identified as smallpox. By the 16th century smallpox had become well established across most of Europe. In Europe smallpox was a leading cause of death in the 18th century, killing an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year. Up to 10 percent of Swedish infants died of smallpox each year, and the death rate of infants in Russia may have been even higher. In the United States and South Africa a much milder form of smallpox, variola minor, was recognized just before the close of the 19th century. Show More Sentences Congress passed the Vaccine Act of 1813 to ensure that safe smallpox vaccine would be available to the American public. In the United States, from 1843 to 1855 first Massachusetts, and then other states required smallpox vaccination. The campaign was successful in eliminating smallpox from all American countries except Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year. To eradicate smallpox, each outbreak had to be stopped from spreading, by isolation of cases and vaccination of everyone who lived close by. In March 2004 smallpox scabs were found inside an envelope in a book on Civil War medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In July 2014 several vials of smallpox were discovered in an FDA laboratory at the National Institutes of Health location in Bethesda, Maryland. On Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, the strongest recipes of smallpox were tested. I called Andropov, who at that time was Chief of KGB, and informed him of the exclusive recipe of smallpox obtained on Vozrazhdenie Island. Alibek's stories about the former Soviet program's smallpox activities have never been independently verified. In 1997, the Russian government announced that all of its remaining smallpox samples would be moved to the Vector Institute in Koltsovo. Insertion of the synthesized smallpox DNA into existing related pox viruses could theoretically be used to recreate the virus. In 2017, Bill Gates stated that bioterrorism with smallpox could be more dangerous than a nuclear weapon. In China, the Qing Dynasty had extensive protocols to protect Manchus from Peking's endemic smallpox. Famous theologian Jonathan Edwards died of smallpox in 1758 following an inoculation. India, like China, created a goddess in response to its exposure to smallpox. It is believed that the civilization was later devastated by the spread of diseases from Europe, such as smallpox. Throughout the conflict and years of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, many Incas died of smallpox. By the middle of the 18th century, colonists had the knowledge and technology to attempt biological warfare with the smallpox virus. In early 1687, within a matter of days, Anne miscarried, her husband caught smallpox, and their two young daughters died of the same infection. Show More Sentences Samuel Willard treated smallpox victims, was a forerunner of modern psychiatry, and ran the first hospital for mental illness in America. The death toll is unknown but 80 people died at Batty Green alone following a smallpox epidemic. Polio is a harder disease than smallpox was but it is doable. These approaches are being examined as possible defenses against bioterrorism, including anthrax or smallpox. No, it isn't anthrax or smallpox or bubonic plague or some other deadly germ brewed by bioterrorists. Monkeypox is part of a family of viruses that cause human smallpox, cowpox, and camelpox as well as monkeypox. Many are experts on smallpox or other diseases that could be used by terrorists such as mousepox, camelpox or Ebola. Researchers have found camelpox is so similar to smallpox that only a small change in its genes would make it deadly. Graves disease presenting as localized myxedematous infiltration in a smallpox vaccination scar. Household transmission of VACV has also been described in the United States after contact with lesions of a smallpox vaccinee in the military. Vaccinia virus was confirmed in all four patients, and gene sequencing in three of the cases linked the virus to the ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine. Researchers overcame that by using genetically engineered vaccinia, a relative of the smallpox virus, which spreads more easily in cancer tumors. Although closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox, it is generally harmless to humans. By monitoring T-cell responses by flow cytometry, we observed a recall response after recent vaccination against smallpox. Egyptian mummies of the 2nd millennium BC show evidence of smallpox, but measles does not leave palaeopathological evidence in human remains. Numerous dispensatories and anatomies were augmented by specialist works on the muscles, smallpox, skin disorders and the diseases of children. Once goals were set, smallpox, guinea worm disease and yaws were eliminated, virtually on time. They had a doss-house, where they spent the first night before going into the village in case they took a disease such as smallpox in. Heymann is a medical epidemiologist who began his career in India with the smallpox eradication program. Weaponized smallpox virus may have an incubation period as short as 7 days, allowing very little time for vaccine administration. Show More Sentences And the 57-year-old, from Northwich, Cheshire, claims to have made contact with a number of the phantoms, who died from a childhood illness, perhaps smallpox or diptheria. The use of smallpox virus in a bioterrorist attack could have a devastating impact, since this virus can spread easily by airborne infection and its infectivity is strong. No regular account is kept of births and deaths, but when smallpox, measles or malignant fevers make their appearance in the house, the mortality is very great. When Mary died of smallpox in 1694, William continued to reign alone. One son had died in infancy and the other died in 1703 from smallpox. In 1721, Cotton Mather conducted the first attempt at recording the speech of slaves in his interviews regarding the practice of smallpox inoculation. After intervention by the French ambassador in Lima, the last 15 survivors were returned to the island, but brought with them smallpox, which further devastated the island. Thus the Spanish conquest was achieved through relentless force, and deception, aided by factors like smallpox and a great communication and cultural divide. In cultures that did not recognize a smallpox deity, there was often nonetheless a belief in smallpox demons, who were accordingly blamed for the disease. This book describes a disease that sounds exceptionally like smallpox. If a case of smallpox did occur, shrines would be set up in the homes of the victims, to be worshipped and offered to as the disease ran its course. In the face of the devastation of smallpox, various smallpox gods and goddesses have been worshipped throughout parts of the Old World, for example in China and in India. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin fell ill with smallpox at the age of seven. William III's wife, Mary II of England, died from smallpox as well. In Europe, deaths from smallpox often changed dynastic succession. Jack Carmody claimed the cause of the outbreak in question was more likely due to chickenpox, which at the time was sometimes identified as a mild form of smallpox. British officers, including the top British commanding generals, ordered, sanctioned, paid for and conducted the use of smallpox against the Native Americans. By the end of 1975, smallpox persisted only in the Horn of Africa. By 1979 only four laboratories were known to have smallpox virus. The last major European outbreak of smallpox was in 1972 in Yugoslavia, after a pilgrim from Kosovo returned from the Middle East, where he had contracted the virus. Show More Sentences When a smallpox epidemic occurred he advised the local cattle workers to be inoculated, but they told him that their previous cowpox infection would prevent smallpox. The fact that humans are the only reservoir for smallpox infection, and that carriers did not exist, played a significant role in the eradication of smallpox. In China, powdered smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. The initial problem the WHO team faced was inadequate reporting of smallpox cases, as many cases did not come to the attention of the authorities. In 1958 Professor Viktor Zhdanov, Deputy Minister of Health for the USSR, called on the World Health Assembly to undertake a global initiative to eradicate smallpox. Although some disliked these measures, coordinated efforts against smallpox went on, and the disease continued to diminish in the wealthy countries. In British India a program was launched to propagate smallpox vaccination, through Indian vaccinators, under the supervision of European officials. It has been speculated that Egyptian traders brought smallpox to India during the 1st millennium BC, where it remained as an endemic human disease for at least 2000 years. Hemorrhagic smallpox can cause subconjunctival and retinal hemorrhages. No drug is currently approved for the treatment of smallpox. Other than vaccination, treatment of smallpox is primarily supportive, such as wound care and infection control, fluid therapy, and possible ventilator assistance. Smallpox vaccination within three days of exposure will prevent or significantly lessen the severity of smallpox symptoms in the vast majority of people. There are side effects and risks associated with the smallpox vaccine. Vaccination to prevent smallpox was soon practiced all over the world. If successful, inoculation produced lasting immunity to smallpox. Unlike smallpox, chickenpox does not usually affect the palms and soles. However, if particles with the characteristic morphology of herpesviruses are seen this will eliminate smallpox and other orthopoxvirus infections. In the latter half of 1660, Charles's joy at the Restoration was tempered by the deaths of his youngest brother, Henry, and sister, Mary, of smallpox. A confluent smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up. Age distribution of smallpox infections depends on acquired immunity. Find more words! 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