Word Finder - smallpox

definition

An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

example

The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

synonyms

• variola

Smallpox has been with us for thousands of years.

In 1958, with smallpox still killing two million people a year, the World Health Organization pledged to eradicate it.

She contracted smallpox at the age of 33.

In 1733-1734 there was a dreadful epidemic of smallpox, which destroyed a great number of the people.

At the age of twelve he fell ill of smallpox, but his parents showed little or no interest in his recovery.

He died in 1774 of smallpox.

If James developed smallpox and died he would be a murderer.

He then infected him with the normally deadly smallpox.

After variolation, sometimes people died from the smallpox they caught.

To Jenner's relief James did not catch smallpox.

And we did eliminate smallpox, which is a very evil affliction, almost entirely.

If James lived Jenner would have found a way of preventing smallpox.

On a visit to England after the Restoration of her brother, Charles II, she had contracted smallpox and died there.

Now, it wants open the Pandora's Box of genetically-engineered smallpox.

In the 18th century smallpox was a very common disease and was a major cause of death.

These achievements are especially remarkable for one who was blinded by smallpox at the age of one.

I had a biopsy taken from the smallpox vaccination scar on my upper arm.

The Iraqis claimed the equipment was used to make smallpox vaccine, Tucker said.

As a logical consequence of this view of disease the mode of treatment among peoples in the lower stages of culture is mainly magical; they endeavour to propitiate the evil spirits by sacrifice, to expel them by spells, &c. (see Exorcism), to drive them away by blowing, &c.; conversely we find the Khonds attempt to keep away smallpox by placing thorns and brushwood in the paths leading to places decimated by that disease, in the hope of making the disease demon retrace his steps.

Emmet was short and slight in figure; his face was marked by smallpox, and he was described in 1803 for the purpose of identification as being "of an ugly, sour countenance and dirty brown complexion."

The decrease may chiefly have been due to infectious diseases, especially a very severe epidemic of smallpox.

In the century leading up to its extermination, smallpox killed about 500,000,000 people.

That is the dreadful history of the final, and deadliest, century of smallpox.

In the last thirty years there has not been a single smallpox death or even a single infection.

In the eradication of smallpox, as in the near-elimination of polio, I find both fascinating lessons of history and enormous reason for hope.

In the 800s, smallpox wiped out a third of Japan.

Two things were known at the time about smallpox, also called variola.

When Jenner did variolations on milkmaids who had had cowpox, they never came down with smallpox.

Phipps never came down with smallpox.

I think that is the case with polio and smallpox, which means they weren't eliminated because they were easy, but because they were awful.

The last U.S. case of smallpox occurred in Texas in 1949, and routine vaccinations ended in America 30 years ago.

To Jenner 's relief James did not catch smallpox.

Mary died, childless, of smallpox at the age of 32.

The Tamils had suspected cholera and smallpox at the time.

Robert contracted smallpox as a child, surviving disfigured and scarred.

Now, it wants open the Pandora 's Box of genetically-engineered smallpox.

Worldwide stocks of smallpox vaccine will be measured at about 90 million - however, many of these were produced in the 1980s.

Their busiest year was 1902 during a major smallpox outbreak.

Five of them, however, died of smallpox in prison awaiting trial.

Without engineers building the bombs, programming the missiles, splicing the genes into the smallpox virus, this stuff would n't exist.

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1980, and the US stockpiles of vaccine are decades old.

Father Fined For Blocking Pox Jab A father has been fined for refusing to have his children vaccinated against smallpox.

British doctor Edmund Jenner performs the first vaccination against smallpox.

However, the government did award Edward Jenner £ 10,000 to carry on his work in developing a vaccine against smallpox.

After the introduction of the vaccination, we were able to effectively eradicate smallpox.

Vaccinations in children began about 1900 with the smallpox vaccine.

It also lists a 1976 smallpox vaccine study that may be linked to autism.

The Malays formerly suffered severely from smallpox epidemics, but in the portion of the peninsula under British rule vaccination has been introduced, and the ravages of the disease no longer assume serious dimensions.

He died at Holme-Pierrepoint, near Nottingham, on the 9th of December 1683, of smallpox.

Epidemics of smallpox and typhoid occur; and leprosy, imported from the Orange River and Cape Colonies, has taken firm hold on the Basuto, of whom about 9r per too() are sufferers from this disease.