smallpox

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.