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1.
Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of California Press 2003
Subjects:
Smallpox
Smallpox--Prevention
Smallpox--Epidemiology
Smallpox--Cultures And Culture Media
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...Strikes, 65–66; Fenner et al., Smallpox and ItsEradication, 215.7Hopkins...and Allen E. Stearn, The Effect of Smallpox on the Destiny of theAmerindian (Boston...February 1999), 85.10Fenner et al., Smallpox and Its Eradication, 199.11But see...
2.
The Vaccination Controversy: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of Compulsory Vaccination for Smallpox
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Liverpool Press 2007
Subjects:
Smallpox Vaccine--History--Great Britain
Disease Outbreaks--History--Great Britain
Mass Vaccination--History--Great Britain
Smallpox--Vaccination--Great Britain--History
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...religionand civilization, they brought smallpox, which remained behind aftertheir departure...compiledby Fenner, plotting the history of smallpox 'from ancient times to1900', includes...Daughter of KingAlfred of England has? smallpox' [sic]. Dixon, writing in 1962...
3.
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2007
Subjects:
Indians of North America--Diseases--South Atlantic States
Indians, Treatment of--South Atlantic States
Indians of North America--South Atlantic States--History
Smallpox--South Atlantic States--Epidemiology
Slavery--South Atlantic States
South Atlantic States--History
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...communities. By Blake's account,smallpox had [Swept off great Numbers of [indigenous...geographic extent of the GreatSoutheastern Smallpox Epidemic. After arriving in South Carolina...the disease from 1698 through 1700. Smallpox undoubtedly arrived thereby way of South...
4.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - Vol. 11
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Publisher:
Marshall Cavendish 2004
Subjects:
Life Sciences--Encyclopedias
Biology--Encyclopedias
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...the lastnaturally occurring case of smallpox was in 1977, andin 1980 it became the...vaccinations. Almost 200 years earlier,smallpox was also the first disease to be targeted...behind scars.Before doctors could treat smallpox, one in fivesufferers died; survivors...
5.
Asian Population History
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2001
Subjects:
Asia--Population--History
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The idea of immunizing against smallpox was not new. A folk technique basedon observation of the characteristics of smallpox had been around for centuries.The observation was that smallpox struck a person only once and that those whosurvived...
6.
Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930
Contributors:
Publisher:
Westview Press 1998
Subjects:
Working Class--Latin America--Political Activity
Urbanization--Latin America
City And Town Life--Latin America
Working Class--Housing--Latin America
Working Class--Medical Care--Latin America
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...Chile also fought a long battle against smallpox. As early as 1765 Chile had be­gun...the injection of live pustules from a smallpox victim intothe arm of one not yet infected...immunization in this fashion during a smallpox epidemic that year andagain in 1785 during...
7.
Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2003
Subjects:
Emergency Management
Terrorism--Health Aspects
Weapons Of Mass Destruction--Health Aspects
Terrorism--Prevention
Health Planning
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...F, Henderson DA, Arita I, et al. Smallpox and Its Eradication. Geneva: WorldHealth...Countering the posteradication threat of smallpox and polio. Clin InfDis 2002; 34:79U...Working Group on CivilianBiodefense. Smallpox as a biological weapon. JAMA 1999...
8.
Unraveling DNA: The Most Important Molecule of Life
Contributors:
Publisher:
Perseus Publishing 1997 (Revised edition)
Subjects:
Dna
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...healthy people deliberately with cow smallpox and thus protectthem from the full...when, thanks to Jenner's invention, smallpox was practi­cally eradicated in Europe, it was found that both types of smallpox werecaused by viruses. Although different...
9.
Viruses, Plagues, and History
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2000
Subjects:
Virus Diseases--History
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The havoc wrought by smallpox also brought a morbid state of mind...epidemics at home, were immune to smallpox.However, for the Aztecs this exposure...Mexico, waskilled at this time by smallpox. The aftermath is not surprising...
10.
The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1993
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases--England--London--History--19th Century
Medicine, Preventive--England--London--History--19th Century
Epidemiology--England--London
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...ordinary times customarily sent such smallpox cases as rec­ommended by the district medical officers to the Smallpox Hospital at High­gate. In...accustomed reluctantly to receive smallpox patients into theirworkhouses, or...
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