In theory measles could be eradicated - like smallpox it has no animal host.
There is a new way to make smallpox vaccine that is fast and cheap.
Some 150, 000 people across India eventually labored to find and inoculate people against smallpox.
The first symptoms of smallpox usually appear 12 to 14 days after you're infected.
The woman concerned, who later died, was seen by three GPs who didn't diagnose smallpox.
The WHA will meet again this coming May, and smallpox will be on the agenda.
In the U.S., the smallpox virus is kept at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Like polio, smallpox was a viral disease for which effective, easily administered vaccines existed.
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One thing everyone wants to avoid, though, is what happened after smallpox was eliminated.
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First, unlike smallpox, polio viruses can survive for long periods outside a host for instance in sewage.
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It should have been obvious to even casual observers that the smallpox vaccine was a lifesaver.
The smallpox vaccine literally was the difference between life and death back in the early 1900s.
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Because Europeans came late to the Arctic, the Inuit got rights, not smallpox-infected blankets.
"We will have enough does to ensure that every American will have a smallpox vaccine available, " Thompson said.
The eradication of smallpox was possibly the greatest victory of science over disease in the history of mankind.
Under the plan, only those people who came in close contact with someone who contracted smallpox would be vaccinated.
One day the guru told him that his mission was to eradicate smallpox.
For the effort against smallpox, IBM is contributing a fleet of its eServer p690s running its DB2 database software.
Gates wants to wipe the remaining polio cases off the planet in the same way that smallpox was eliminated.
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Smallpox is highly contagious once a victim breaks out in the characteristic rash.
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During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, you see, a smallpox epidemic had swept through Europe killing millions of citizens.
The inspiration for Rotary's campaign against polio came from the eradication of smallpox.
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Religious freedom could not compete with the threat of a widening smallpox epidemic.
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Even regarding smallpox, a disease that is extinct but could be revived as a bioterror weapon, there is good news.
Smallpox killed and disfigured millions of people around the world until its eradication in 1979 through a massive vaccination program.
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In June a government advisory panel had recommended that only some 10, 000 to 20, 000 healthcare professionals be immunized against smallpox.
We have no idea whether this lack of natural exposure might influence how serious an epidemic of smallpox might be.
There had never been epidemics of smallpox before the vaccine, but many outbreaks swept across Europe in the nineteenth century.
Smallpox vaccines have been stockpiled and the NHS has supplies of antibiotics to treat people infected with anthrax or plague.
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