Sentences with phrase «against smallpox»

More than 6 million New York City residents were vaccinated against smallpox in April 1947 after a man who'd returned from Mexico died from the infection, Lorna Thorpe of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and her colleagues at the New York City health department combed through more than 80,000 death certificates from the period shortly after the city's vaccination drive.

Vaccination against smallpox ended worldwide in the 1980s, and most people have no immunity.

The team claims its work, funded by Tonix, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, could lead to a safer, more effective vaccine against smallpox.

Donald Hopkins was only 26 when he arrived in Sierra Leone to begin inoculating millions of people against the smallpox virus.

It was, after all, Catholic missionaries, mostly Jesuits, who began inoculating Amazon Indians against smallpox in the 1720s.

Not only did Washington survive all of these conditions, he knew how to inoculate his army against smallpox, claiming the British tried using as an early form of biological warfare.

A plan for the biggest mass vaccination program since the 1964 operation against smallpox, is being discussed by ministers.

«Thorough surveillance is key, because it mobilises national leadership,» says D. A. Henderson at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who led the fight against smallpox.

Over the last 30 years, the stocks of virus have contributed little to scientific understanding, other than confirming that new drugs aimed at other viruses still plaguing us are not much use against smallpox.

The vaccinia virus has been developed by the biotechnology company Jennerex — named after Edward Jenner, who in the 18th century discovered that a cowpox virus could inoculate against smallpox.

Jenner hoped the fluid from the cowpox lesion would somehow inoculate the boy against the smallpox scourge.

If the vaccine also proves safe and effective in subsequent tests in humans, it might be possible to mount a containment strategy similar to that used in the past against smallpox.

Reality has caught up with the Bush Administration's ambitious plan to vaccinate between 5 million and 10 million Americans against smallpox by this summer.

The man had injured the skin of his hands changing car tyres in cold weather and «should have been wearing plastic gloves,» says Heidelore Hoffman, the dermatologist who reported the case, «but he thought he was protected because he had been vaccinated against smallpox as a child.»

Scientists speculate that the variant may have originally evolved as a protection against smallpox.

Dual vaccine could replace existing shots against smallpox and anthrax — and have advantages over both

Although now at the forefront of molecular technologies, vaccination has a history in the West going back at least 200 years (vacca - «cow» refers to Edward Jenner's use of cowpox against smallpox).

She was one of the first Russian rulers to help the poor, and was also the first leader to initiate a large scale inoculation program when in 1768 she immunized herself and her subjects against smallpox.

It noted that the value and limitations of vaccination against smallpox had been thoroughly researched and understood by scientific medicine, and yet it went on to add:

Any likely use of drugs or vaccines against smallpox would come under emergency regulatory provisions that allow the use of treatments that have not been completely tested.

Cells from 10 people never vaccinated against smallpox were also exposed.

The adapted virus that immunized hundreds of millions of people against smallpox has now been enlisted in the war on cancer.

«I need to state that though there is no specific vaccine for the disease, vaccination against Smallpox has been proven to be 85 percent effective in preventing Monkeypox.

Although much of that money goes to stockpiling vaccines and improving disease surveillance and information exchange, part of it pays for research into improved vaccines and other «countermeasures» against smallpox, anthrax, and botulinum toxin.

Afraid of needles, he had never been vaccinated against smallpox.

Zelicoff suggests that the strain was unusually infectious, because three of the 25 people who were vaccinated against smallpox and were close to a vaccinated patient got sick themselves — an unusually high percentage.

Fatal heart attacks that recently struck two people after they were vaccinated against smallpox were probably unfortunate coincidences, not adverse consequences of vaccination, say epidemiologists who base their conclusion on death records from the 1940s.

There is a vaccine against smallpox but routine public inoculation ended in the 1970s as incidence of the disease declined.