smallpox,acute, highly contagious disease causing a high fever and successive stages of severe skin eruptions. Occurring worldwide in epidemics, it killed up to 40% of those who contracted it and accounted for more deaths over time than any other infectious disease. Spreading to the New World ...
The WHO began asmallpox eradicationprogram in 1967 (Fenner et al., 1988). In that year an estimated 10million cases of smallpox caused 2million deaths. However, the greatest triumph in publichealth historywas realized in 1980 when smallpox wasofficially declared to be eradicated by the WHO. ...
We analyze a 140-year series of smallpox deaths in the land Islands, Finland. Vaccination, introduced in 1805, dramatically reduced the annual number of smallpox deaths. It also influenced the age distribution of smallpox deaths, changing smallpox from a childhood disease before 1805 to one ...
there would be approximately five to 10 persons with adverse reactions serious enough to require hospitalization and one or two deaths. In the absence of smallpox (or other poxvirus) exposure, these risks are unnecessary. However, they pale in comparison with those encountered during a smallpox ...
小题1:Smallpox was so serious that ___ by the end of l8th century A. its death rate was up to ten percent B. those who caught it were certain to die C. one in ten people in the world died of smallpox D. one in ten deaths in the world was caused by smallpox 小题2:Edward...
Variola major was the predominant endemic strain throughout the world, and by the end of the 18th century, it was responsible for approximately 400,000 deaths a year in Europe. In patients who recovered from the disease, blindness was common, and disfiguring scars were nearly universal. During...
In the year following the total deaths were 338,979, of which the registered deaths from old age were 35,063, and the deaths from violence 11,980. The proportion of deaths for the whole population was 21 per thousand. The annual slaughter in England and Wales from preventable causes of ...
them inoculated as described in the introduction to this article above. The inoculation was done on March 3, 1775. Two-year-old Princess Sophia had no side effects from the inoculation. However, Princess Caroline was one of the 3% of those inoculated who developed serious smallpox and she ...
A major epidemic of Variola major with an estimated 90 000 cases and 18 000 deaths occurred in Bangladesh in 1972. During a 3-year period methods of active surveillance (market search, outbreak investigation, and house-to-house search) were developed to supplement the passive reporting system....
anannualglobal expenditure of about US$1000 million for vaccination, airport inspections, etc., made necessary by the existence of smallpox. This equation takes no account of the deaths, misery, and costs of smallpox in afflicted people, or of the medical complications of untoward reactions to ...