Smallpox and its control in Canada

JWR McIntyre, CS Houston - CMAJ, 1999 - Can Med Assoc
Edward Jenner's first treatise in 1798 described how he used cowpox material to provide
immunity to the related smallpox virus. He sent this treatise and some cowpox material to his …

The speckled monster: Canada, smallpox and its eradication

L Barreto, CJ Rutty - Canadian journal of public health, 2002 - search.proquest.com
Barreto and Rutty discuss the history of smallpox and smallpox vaccines in Canada. The
victim of smallpox's frightening wrath many times since its first appearance in 1635 and its …

The smallpox story: life and death of an old disease

AM Behbehani - Microbiological reviews, 1983 - Am Soc Microbiol
456 BEHBEHANI protective measure, Dr. Edward Jenner intro-duced vaccination (using
cowpox virus instead of smallpox virus) into Britain in 1796. As a result of widespread …

Smallpox vaccination

S Krugman, SL Katz - New England Journal of Medicine, 1969 - Mass Medical Soc
The eradication of smallpox in the United States stems, in great part, from the extensive and
routine use of smallpox vaccine in this country. In spite of the availability of an effective …

[BOOK][B] Smallpox: the death of a disease: the inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer

DA Henderson - 2009 - books.google.com
For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left
permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967 …

The global eradication of smallpox

MA Strassburg - American journal of infection control, 1982 - Elsevier
Abstract On May 8, 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly declared the world free of
smallpox. This followed approximately 2 1 2 years after the last documented naturally …

The saga of smallpox eradication: an end and a beginning

DA Henderson - Canadian Journal of Public Health/Revue Canadienne …, 1979 - JSTOR
YDur ticipate kind in invitation this meeting to me was to thrice par-ticipate in this meeting
was thrice welcome: first, as an opportunity to pay special tribute to Drs. Bob Wilson and …

Smallpox vaccination in the early 19th century using live carriers: the travels of Francisco Xavier de Balmis

JA Aldrete - Southern medical journal, 2004 - go.gale.com
Realizing that the Spanish colonies were being devastated by epidemics of smallpox
resulting in thousands of deaths, Charles IV, King of Spain, sent one of his court's physicians …

The end of smallpox.

D Baxby - History today, 1999 - search.ebscohost.com
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[BOOK][B] Vaccination against smallpox

E Jenner - 2010 - books.google.com
The once-dreaded scourge of smallpox has been eradicated through barrier immunization.
The eminent scientist Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was a pioneer in demonstrating that …