The history of smallpox extends into pre-history. Genetic evidence suggests that the smallpox virus emerged 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Prior to that, similar...

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally...

The history of smallpox in Mexico spans approximately 430 years from the arrival of the Spanish to the official eradication in 1951. It was brought to...

In 1978, an outbreak of smallpox in the United Kingdom resulted in the death of Janet Parker, a British medical photographer, who became the last recorded...

The smallpox vaccine is used to prevent smallpox infection caused by the variola virus. It is the first vaccine to have been developed against a contagious...

Smallpox demon (Japanese: 疱瘡神, Hōsōkami) or smallpox devil is a demon which was believed to be responsible for causing smallpox in medieval Japan. In...

Japanese smallpox epidemic (天平の疫病大流行, Tenpyō no ekibyō dairyūkō, "Epidemic of the Tenpyō era") was a major smallpox epidemic that afflicted much of Japan...

English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and...

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Ladnyi ID (1988). "The History of Smallpox and its Spread Around the World" (PDF). Smallpox and its eradication. History of International Public Health...

Amerindian." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 13.5 (1943): 601-613. Donald R. Hopkins, The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History (U of Chicago Press, 2002)...

theories about how the disease first entered the continent (see History of smallpox). Smallpox continued to be a deadly disease and killed an estimated 300...

of Aboriginal deaths. The consequences of Aboriginal smallpox are an integral part of modern Australian history. The 1789 outbreak, in particular, has...

variolation (from the Latin word variola = smallpox), the predecessor to the smallpox vaccine. The smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796...

The Last Days of Smallpox: Tragedy in Birmingham is a 2018 nonfiction account of the events leading up to and following the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the...

Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History. University of Chicago Press. pp. 205. ISBN 978-0-226-35168-1. "History of Smallpox – Smallpox Through the Ages"...

The Massachusetts smallpox epidemic or colonial epidemic was a smallpox outbreak that hit Massachusetts in 1633. Smallpox outbreaks were not confined...

Variolation was the method of inoculation first used to immunize individuals against smallpox (Variola) with material taken from a patient or a recently...

Yugoslav smallpox outbreak was the largest outbreak of smallpox in Europe after the Second World War. It was centered in Kosovo, a province of Serbia within...

epidemics History of smallpox in Mexico Skaarup 2015, p. 205. Acuna-Soto, Rodolfo; et al. (2004). "When half of the population died: the epidemic of hemorrhagic...

(1913). "Variation in the type of infectious diseases as shown by the history of smallpox in the United States, 1815-1912". J Infect Dis. 13 (2): 171–196....

The Smallpox Hospital, sometimes referred to as the Renwick Smallpox Hospital and later the Maternity and Charity Hospital Training School, was a hospital...

ancestral form of modern smallpox dates back to 1580 AD, this study merely indicates that the strains of smallpox circulating at the time of smallpox eradication...

pneumonic plagues, and smallpox; direct violence by settlers and their allies through war and forced removal; and the general disruption of societies. Scholarly...

smallpox epidemic to strike the native peoples of the coastal and interior Pacific Northwest arrived in the early 1770s, devastating large swathes of...

The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic spanned 1836 through 1840, reaching its height after the spring of 1837, when an American Fur Company steamboat...

and the History of Smallpox and Vaccination. Proceedings (Baylor University Medical Center). Bowler, Peter J. (2009). Evolution: The History of an Idea...

responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the elimination of diseases such as polio and tetanus from much of the world. According to the World...

EyeWitness to History. Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2007. Riedel S (2005). "Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination"...

outbreaks of disease, such as a smallpox epidemic in 735–737 that killed over a quarter of the population. Emperor Shōmu (r. 724–749) feared his lack of piousness...