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Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. [7] [11] The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in 1980, [10] making smallpox the only human disease to have been eradicated to date.
During the 1770s, smallpox killed at least 30% of the Northwestern Native Americans, killing tens of thousands. [36] [37] The smallpox epidemic of 1780–1782 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians. [71] This epidemic is a classic instance of European immunity and non-European vulnerability.
Carlo, Duke of Calabria. John Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon. Casimir VI, Duke of Pomerania. Johan Lorentz Castenschiold. Giulia Centurelli. George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos. Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (born 1745) Charles Joseph of Lorraine. Chico Velasquez.
George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, 1776. The New World of the Western Hemisphere was devastated by the 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic. Estimates based on remnant settlements say at least 130,000 people were estimated to have died in the epidemic that started in 1775. [ 1]
Collapse of population in Mexico during the 16th century, attributed to repeated epidemics of smallpox and cocoliztli. Mexico's native population was one of the first to experience a smallpox epidemic, where many succumbed to the disease. In 1520, the first wave of smallpox killed 5-8 million people. From 1545 to 1576, up to 17 million people ...
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
Edward Jenner FRS FRCPE [ 1] (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. [ 2][ 3] The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox.
The FBI and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating “questionable vials” labeled "smallpox" and found in a freezer last night at a Merck facility outside Philadelphia.