Worldwide, since January 1, 1976, smallpox cases have been detected only in certain areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. One year and 9 months has elapsed since cases were detected in Ethiopia; 1 year and 1 month has elapsed since 5 cases were detected in Kenya after an importation fro...
acute, highly contagious disease, 1510s,small pokkes, as distinguished fromgreat pox"syphilis;" fromsmall-pock"pustule caused by smallpox" (mid-15c.); seesmall(adj.) +pox. Compare Frenchpetite vérole. Fatal in a quarter to a third of unvaccinated cases, it could persist in clothes or ...
the CDC reported 47 cases (37 confirmed and an additional 10 probable human cases). The cases were relatively mild (no deaths) but the outbreak prompted a significant response and investigation. How did monkeypox, an African virus, come to find its way into prairie dogs in the United States...
recent evidence proves that the viruses are genetically distinct.9 Variola major, which is more severe and most common, has four subtypes: ordinary (the most frequent type, accounting for 90% or more of cases); modified (mild and occurring in previously vaccinated persons); flat; and hemorrhag...
Despite eradication1, smallpox still presents a risk to public health whilst laboratory stocks of virus remain2,3. One factor crucial to any assessment of this risk is R0, the average number of secondary cases infected by each primary case. However, rece
Smallpox was eradicated in 1980, and no cases have happened since 1977. Scientists keep a small amount of the smallpox virus alive under tightly controlled conditions in the U.S. and Russia for medical research. In the event of another smallpox outbreak, governments around the world have smal...
Papular spongiotic dermatitis of smallpox vaccination: report of 2 cases with review of the literature. We report 2 cases of nonspecific postvaccinial dermatitis following smallpox vaccination. The patients presented with diffuse, pruritic, erythematous macul... EM Gaertner,S Groo,J Kim - 《Archiv...
At least 90% of smallpox cases among unvaccinated persons were of the ordinary type.[33] In this form of the disease, by the second day of the rash the macules had become raised papules. By the third or fourth day, the papules had filled with an opalescent fluid to become vesicles. ...
While not every smallpox outbreak was deliberately caused by white settlers, enough evidence exists to clearly demonstrate that more than once actions were taken to intentionally facilitate its spread. In many of these cases, through their own words, people demonstrate depraved indifference, if not ...
Variola virus, the causing agent of smallpox, was eradicated in 1980s and today no new cases are reported. The first human infectious illness to be eliminated globally is variola. On the contrary to Variola, monkeypox, which is a zoonotic and variola-like disease, has nowadays turned to...