Sentences with phrase «against smallpox in»
It was, after all, Catholic missionaries, mostly Jesuits, who began inoculating Amazon Indians against smallpox in the 1720s.
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Donald Hopkins was only 26 when he arrived in Sierra Leone to begin inoculating millions of people against the smallpox virus.
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.
Vaccination against smallpox ended worldwide in the 1980s, and most people have no immunity.
The adapted virus that immunized hundreds of millions of people against smallpox has now been enlisted in the war on cancer.
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.
Smallpox is doubtless uncommon among that class of people who burn gas for [light] in our cities because they generally have sufficient intelligence and forethought to attend to the vaccination of their families and its ravages are almost wholly confined to that improvident class who make no provision against the smallpox or anything else in the future and who live by the light of burning fluidSmallpox is doubtless uncommon among that class of people who burn gas for [light] in our cities because they generally have sufficient intelligence and forethought to attend to the vaccination of their families and its ravages are almost wholly confined to that improvident class who make no provision against the smallpox or anything else in the future and who live by the light of burning fluidsmallpox or anything else in the future and who live by the light of burning fluid.»
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.»
Such cross-protection is the case with cowpox and smallpox, and a vaccine currently in use for Japanese encephalitis protects some animals against the closely related West Nile virus.
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.
Scientists have always been engaged in > politics, sometimes for good (advocating vaccination campaigns against > smallpox, for example) and sometimes for ill (arguing for the improvement > of > the «white» race by eugenics), but scientists have had their «meddling» > fingers in politics for centuries, maybe millennia, without any lasting > ill > effects on our current ability to investigate the workings of the world or > > to influence the development of public policy today.