smallpox 的定义
Pathology.
- an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.
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- How Onesimus introduced inoculation to America, saving hundreds of lives during the smallpox epidemic.
- More contagious than Covid-19 and with a 30 percent mortality rate, smallpox was one of history’s biggest killers.
- In the 1960s, around 60% of the world’s smallpox cases were reported in India.
- Before then, inoculations were done by giving patients a small dose of the actual smallpox virus, hoping that they would get a mild case and then be immune.
- With the exception of the smallpox vaccine, which can cause a rare but serious infection of the fetus, vaccines have been safe and enormously beneficial for pregnant women and their babies.
- The commander of the Continental Army realized that if he did not inoculate his army against smallpox, he might not have an army.
- In many places, it was custom to place huts outside the villages for smallpox victims.
- For example, vaccinia immune globulin, or VIG, is stored and ready for the next person who becomes ill from smallpox vaccine.
- In the 18th century, German immigrants coming to Pennsylvania boarded ships plagued with typhus, dysentery, smallpox, and scurvy.
- Shoham adds without substantive evidence that “Syrian possession of the smallpox virus is likely.”
- To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.
- This barkeeper had not been exposed to smallpox except by contact with the man mentioned here.
- The unharmed had been present in sick-rooms or had even nursed the patients, not knowing that the disease was smallpox.
- It does more: in 90 per centum of cases it will prevent successful infection with smallpox.
- The mildest smallpox in one person can cause malignant smallpox in another, and vice versa.