Sentences with phrase «people against the smallpox»

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

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

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

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

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.»

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.