Smallpox

Smallpox is the only disease that has ever been successfully eradicated.

Controlling the spread of disease 2010

Smallpox is different from chickenpox in how it is spread.

Smallpox Vaccine 2008

Smallpox is spread from one person to another by large droplets from the mouth and throat of people who have the disease.

Smallpox Vaccine 2008

Smallpox is no longer a thing of which to be afraid.

Stalking the Pestilence 1914

Smallpox is one of these, easily controllable by vaccination.

Some of the Triumphs of Modern Medicine 1910

Smallpox is becoming so prevalent in Washington that the House of

Foreign and Colonial News 1864

Smallpox is perfect because you don’t need a lab to generate a new designer virus (which will in upcoming decades be completely possible), it has a decent incubation period allowing the infected to travel, and it is contagious long before it outwardly presents with identifiable symptoms.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Biological Weapons Amnesia 2010

Smallpox is perfect because you don’t need a lab to generate a new designer virus (which will in upcoming decades be completely possible), it has a decent incubation period allowing the infected to travel, and it is contagious long before it outwardly presents with identifiable symptoms.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Biological Weapons Amnesia 2010

Smallpox, that is what it was, though how smallpox could come on board when there had been no known cases ashore when we left Rangiroa is beyond me.

THE HEATHEN 2010

Smallpox, which is a disease that was eradicated worldwide in the 1970s, kills about 30 percent of the people that contract it.

CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2001 2001