The small sign under the cemetery name indicates that the cemetery began in 1822, the same year as Capt. James Neal’s death and where he was first interred ... A mild case of smallpox is ...

So what is the history of Smallpox? • The first known victim of smallpox was Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157BC and whose mummy still bears the scars of the disease. • When the ...

Smallpox came to the New World in the late 1400s and early 1500s, decimating native populations in the West Indies and continental Americas. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the ...

the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the early history of this public health strategy. The eradication of smallpox ...

Although smallpox is considered a disease of the past, there is current heightened international concern regarding the potential use of smallpox virus as an agent for bioterrorism. Smallpox is ...

Siga Technologies has won US approval for Tpoxx, the first drug to be licensed to treat smallpox which, despite being eradicated in the 1980s, might be still used in a bioattack. The highly ...

The smallpox virus has been around for at least 3,000 years. Even ancient Egyptian mummies have shown signs of the disease. Throughout history, the illness has killed millions of people, but ...

Discontinuation of the smallpox vaccination program in the early 1970s has reduced immunity to the variola virus in the general population. Because of declining immune response activity with age, the ...

Two of the skeletons dating to the early phase of settlement exhibited signs of violence ... responsible for smallpox, in a ...