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"If the smallpox virus were released today the majority of the world's population would be defenseless and given the virus' 30% kill rate nearly 2 billion people could die.
1400-1700 Smallpox, caused by the brick-shaped virus variola, was endemic in Europe and elsewhere during the early modern period (1400-1700), periodically erupting in epidemics that ravaged whole cities, killing nearly 30% of the victims and leaving...
1492 Columbus' first voyage to America can be attributed for bringing the smallpox virus to America and led to its spread across most of the continent of North America.
1734 Letter on Inoculation with Smallpox by Voltaire
1763 Siege of Fort Pitt
1767 An Account of the Manner of Inoculating for the Small Pox in the East Indies with Some Observations on the Practice and Mode of Treating that Disease in those Parts (London, 1767) book
1767 Maria Theresa's decision to have her children inoculated after the smallpox epidemic of 1767 was responsible for changing Austrian physicians' negative view of inoculation.
1776 However, in grappling with what John Adams called "the King of Terrors to America," General George Washington encountered nonscientific barriers that ultimately stemmed from his own countrymen's fear of concentrated authority.
1798 The history of vaccination conventionally dates from Jenner's work published in 1798, which demonstrated that deliberate inoculation with material from cowpox lesions resulted in protection against smallpox.
1947 New York City mass smallpox vaccination
1947 New York City smallpox outbreak
1967-1972 USAID and Donald Henderson Eradication of Smallpox and Control Measles in Western and Central Africa
1967-1977 USAID International effort that eradicated smallpox throughout the world
1977 Smallpox is the first human disease ever to be eradicated.
1977 The WHO, Strecker noted, also launched a major African campaign against smallpox in 1977, which involved the urban population, not the rural Pygmies.
1987 London Times - Science Writer declares WHO Smallpox vaccine program connected to AIDS in Africa
2001 Foreign Affairs - The Nightmare of Bioterrorism
2001 Operation Dark Winter
2002? "It's incredibly ironic that the great public health triumph of eradicating smallpox in the 1970s and the discontinuation of world wide vaccination have opened the door for this virus to be once again used as a weapon."
2003 United States smallpox vaccination campaign
2005 Atlantic Storm
2005 Military Medicine - History of military vaccination timeline
2022 Dr. John Campbell - Monkeypox arrives in England
2023 Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense - Meeting the Moment: Biodefense Policy, Procurement, and Public Health
600s-1864 Circassia
A second avenue in AIDS vaccine research involves combining the envelope gene with the vaccinia, or smallpox, virus.
Brainpox (The Cobra Event)
Cobra (The Cobra Event)
Deaths from smallpox
Donald Henderson
Dr. Viktor Zhdanov
Dr. Viktor Zhdanov was a Soviet virologist. He was instrumental in the effort to eradicate smallpox globally.
Gary L. Disbrow, Ph.D.
History of smallpox
Horsepox Virus (HSPV)
Inoculations
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Monkeypox, smallpox and cowpox look fairly similar.
Prof Benjamin Rush AKA Master Bleeder
Smallpox epidemics
Smallpox eradication
Smallpox hospitals
Smallpox links
Smallpox outbreaks
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Soviet biological weapons program
The practice of variolation spread slowly to Europe's ruling classes, raising hopes that smallpox might be conquered and complementing Enlightenment precepts of applied reason and proactive statehood.
Thomas Cadwalader
US Sen James DeWolf

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