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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated, and no naturally occurring smallpox cases have been reported since that time. Two WHO sanctioned collections of the live variola virus ...

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 ...

The smallpox vaccine is no longer administered routinely by any government, and there has not been a natural case detected since 1977, according to the WHO. The X post quoted in the image was ...

Any case of smallpox at this point would have to be considered as a possible bioterrorism attack. Unfortunately, your vaccine from the 1950s, like mine from the 1960s, cannot be considered effective.