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Early settlers in Deep South had smallpox vaccines. Did they share?
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Just prior to the Louisiana Purchase, early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ...
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Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval
By William J. Broad In 1999, William J. Broad and two colleagues wrote a comprehensive article on the past, present and future of the smallpox virus. Feb. 12, 2025 President Trump’s order that ...
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Mpox (monkeypox) and HIV
Mpox (monkeypox) is caused by a virus related to smallpox; both are members of the orthopox virus family. Mpox typically causes a rash with sores that can appear anywhere on the body. Sometimes the ...
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Similar-pathogen vaccine: smallpox virus
Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another virus that is similar to the smallpox virus, yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body.
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From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people it has killed, but we do that in the 20th century alone it killed ...
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Early settlers in Deep South had smallpox vaccines; did they share with Native Americans?
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Just prior to the Louisiana Purchase, early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ability to vaccinate themselves and the enslaved against smallpox, but it ...