smallpox
શીતળા
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Disease was rampant and smallpox , typhus, typhoid and dysentery made death familiar.
an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.
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Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, was a supporter of 'smallpox' vaccination.
He seems to suffer from the impression that the vaccine is just as contagious as 'smallpox' .
Although thousands of Barbadians died from yellow fever and 'smallpox' , Quakers were particularly hard hit.
For 130 years or more after Jenner introduced a vaccine for 'smallpox' this was the only vaccine in general use.
As a naturally occurring disease 'smallpox' is potent and as a weapon of biological warfare it is terrifying.
It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to 'smallpox' , or even measles.
Animal research has led to vaccines for rabies, 'smallpox' , rubella, measles and anthrax.
Disease was rampant and 'smallpox' , typhus, typhoid and dysentery made death familiar.
Terrorists can bring back diseases like 'smallpox' and they can even create their own.
There have been few articles on the risks of 'smallpox' or of the vaccine in the popular media.
Anthrax just isn't the public health disaster that 'smallpox' has the potential to be.
Who knew until it was too late that the blankets were ridden with 'smallpox' and other communicable diseases!
Malnutrition was rife, as were diseases such as tuberculosis and 'smallpox' .
Polio will be the second disease after 'smallpox' to be eradicated.
There now seems a real prospect that, like 'smallpox' , polio may be eradicated entirely from the world.
This has been illustrated by the elimination of other viral infections such as 'smallpox' .
The process induced cowpox, a mild viral disease that conferred immunity to 'smallpox' .
Both anthrax and 'smallpox' vaccines have been in use for a long time, but there are few other similarities between them.
Of the biological weapons, anthrax and 'smallpox' are the most feared.
The most likely diagnosis was thought to be a severe viral infection - but not 'smallpox' .
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