Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

He told McCormick that he wanted the people of Natchez to build a hospital for patients who had smallpox and had been forced ...

A: Yes. British soldiers gave infected blankets, which had been used by smallpox patients, to American Indians during the French and Indian War of 1754-67. As a result, many tribes contracted the ...

Currently, there are no specific treatments for persons infected with smallpox. Patients who become infected are given supportive medical treatment and antibiotics to prevent secondary bacterial ...

Today there is mounting concern about the threat of a bioterrorist attack using smallpox—so much concern that in October 2001 the American government decided to order enough vaccine to protect ...

and then exposed the boy to pus from a smallpox patient. The boy didn’t develop smallpox and Jenner created the term “vaccination” from the Latin for cow, vaccus, to describe this practice.

and pressing it into a cut on his arm. Later, Jenner gave Phipps pus from a smallpox patient, a potentially deadly risk. But the boy didn’t get sick! The cowpox inoculations saved him from smallpox.

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Daniel Luckshire; Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Corporate Secretary; SIGA Technologies Inc Welcome to the CIA business update call. Before returning the call over to CIA ...