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Smallpox
Links
The
Disease and its Vaccine
Smallpox
Disease Overview (CDC-U.S. Centers for Disease Control)
Smallpox
Fact Sheet (WHO-World Health Organization)
Smallpox
(Wikipedia)
Smallpox
Slide Show (WHO)
Smallpox
Vaccine Overview
(CDC)
Smallpox
and Chickenpox: How to Recognize the Difference
(Illinois Dept. of Public Health)
· Despite its name and its similar rash, chickenpox is not
a true "pox" disease
· It is caused by the unrelated varicella zoster virus-a herpes
virus
Smallpox
in History
Smallpox:
A Great and Terrible Scourge (U.S. National Library
of Medicine)
An online exhibit on the history of smallpox and its eradication
The
Edward Jenner Museum (Berkeley, UK)
1947
Smallpox Outbreak in New York City (CNN)
The
last smallpox outbreak in the U.S.: Texas, 1949
"Smallpox
Scares" by Hugh Pennington
(London Review of Books)
Two accidental outbreaks in the UK: 1973 and 1978
Smallpox:
Eradicating the Scourge (BBC)
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