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- Commentary: Smallpox eradication in West and Central Africa revisited. Foege, W.H. // Bulletin of the World Health Organization;1998, Vol. 76 Issue 3, p233
Presents a commentary relating to the eradication of smallpox within West and Central Africa. Adoption of a resolution accepting the report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication; Reference to the outbreak of smallpox in Ogoja, Nigeria.
- To kill a killer? Fitzgerald, Karen // Science World;2/11/94, Vol. 50 Issue 9, p6
Focuses on the dilemma facing scientist regarding the elimination of the smallpox virus. Recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO); History; Development of vaccine against smallpox; Threat of another epidemic; Security precautions in keeping the virus in laboratories; Possible use...
- Mankind's magnificent milestone: Smallpox eradication. Small, Parker A.; Small, Natalie S. // American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teache;May96, Vol. 58 Issue 5, p264
Reports on the impact of diseases on the family structure and the society. Role of technology, societal attitudes and disease; Analogy of these determining factors; Mankind's eradication of smallpox by inoculation; Information on smallpox and its effect; Examination of Chinese medicine in...
- Is smallpox a hazard in church crypts? Brazier, Ann M.; Baxter, P. J.; Young, Susan E. J. // British Journal of Industrial Medicine;May1988, Vol. 45 Issue 5, p359
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- Smallpox--Stockholm, Sweden, 1963. // MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report;6/28/1996, Vol. 45 Issue 25, p538
Reports on the outbreak of smallpox in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963. Source of the outbreak; Summary of smallpox cases; Deaths.
- Destruction of smallpox virus by 1999. // United Nations Chronicle;1996, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p78
Reports that the Executive Board of the World Health Organization recommended the destruction of remaining stocks of the smallpox virus by June 1999. Background information on the eradication effort.
- Wiping out smallpox. Gleaves, Kathleen // Boys' Life;Dec94, Vol. 84 Issue 12, p14
Offers information about the deadly disease smallpox which once terrified the world. Variola, the microscopic viruses that cause smallpox; The discovery that cowpox could be used to make a smallpox vaccine; Why some variola are being kept by scientists. INSET: Next target: Polio.
- Potential virulence determinants in terminal regions of variola smallpox virus genome. Massung, Robert F.; Esposito, Joseph J. // Nature;12/23/1993 & 12/30/1993, Vol. 366 Issue 6457, p748
Discusses the features of the smallpox major virus, strain Bangladesh- 1975. Focus on 187 putative proteins that have probable contribution to pathogenicity and virus host-range properties; Similarity of 150 proteins to those of vaccinia virus; 37 proteins reflecting variola-specific sequences...
- Escape from Moscow. Orent, Wendy // Sciences;May/Jun98, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p26
Opinion. Focuses on a videotape received by virologist and senior research scientist, Peter B. Jahrling of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland from the director general of Vector, Lev S. Sandakhchiev pertaining to...
- Smallpox reprieve. // New Scientist;1/28/95, Vol. 145 Issue 1962, p13
Informs about the postponement of the destruction of the last surviving samples of smallpox virus by the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO). Decision taken to allow research on the virus.
