Mrs. Schroeder, living at 266 Stagg-street, Brooklyn, Eastern District, and her two sons were taken to the Flatbush Hospital yesterday, suffering from smallpox. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

As soon as they learned that a smallpox case had been discovered there, they became panic stricken, and demanded the money they had paid for lodging. This the proprietor refused to refund ...

Warning - this story contains graphic images. In the summer of 1978, the last known case of smallpox was reported, claiming the life of 40-year-old medical photographer Janet Parker. But how did ...

The majority of patients with smallpox recover, but death occurs in up to 30% of cases. 1950s-Worldwide, 15 million cases of smallpox are reported each year. 1977-The last naturally occurring case ...

Wherever they found a smallpox patient, they would isolate them and vaccinate everyone in the surrounding households. By the fall of 1975, Bangladesh was the only country left to still have cases ...

Currently, laboratory diagnosis is available through CDC. Once cases of smallpox are identified, the local or state health department will coordinate the public health response in cooperation with ...

And there’s something reassuring about the fact that, at least in the case of smallpox, humanity eventually rose to the challenge. With luck, aggressive vaccination, and ambitious international ...

There haven't been any smallpox cases since 1977. It's unlikely that you'll need a smallpox vaccination unless you're in the military or work on smallpox vaccination research. Dip the two-pronged ...

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Then, a nasty rash. Alarmed doctors suspected smallpox but, instead, they soon discovered something even more bewildering: The first-known human case of monkeypox, now called mpox. The child was ...