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View Post: Review of Constance Cappel’s “Smallpox Genocide” « Turtle Talk
5 Jan 2009
Greg Gagnon’s review of Constance Cappel’s monograph “The Smallpox Genocide of the Odawa Tribe at L’Arbre Croche, 1763: The History of a Native American People” is here (smallpox-genocide-review). It is not terribly favorable. ...
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View Post: South Carolina Genealogy » Blog Archive » Fevers and Small-pox to ...
27 Dec 2008 by admin0  
But they also brought with them fevers and smallpox. During the spring and summer of 1732 a number of persons died suddenly from what was reported as fevers, but was probably small-pox. Mr. Brawn, the dancing master, ...
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View Post: New Study Indicates Smallpox Vaccination Effective For Decades ...
30 Nov 2008 by Lockergnome  
Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, there is concern that bioterrorists might obtain smallpox from a laboratory and release it into the population. Under such circumstances, the supply of smallpox vaccine may ...
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View Post: jannypie.com: Sam Smallpox
28 Nov 2008 by jannypie  
Smallpox is cause by two viruses: Variola major, and Variola minor. Variola minor is jealous of Variola major, which got the cooler name and kills more people. True story- both viruses are named from the Greek word varius, ...
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View Post: Official Google Blog: Wiping out the next smallpox
23 Sep 2008 by Karen  
It took more than a village: it took the entire world -- people of all races, countries and religions -- to eradicate smallpox. The final naturally occurring cases of "Variola major" in Bangladesh in 1978 and "Variola minor" in Somalia ...
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View Post: New Study Indicates Smallpox Vaccination Effective for Decades ...
30 Nov 2008
New Study Indicates Smallpox Vaccination Effective for Decades, Implications for Vaccine Distribution in Event of Bioterrorist Attack: Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, there is concern that bioterrorists ...
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View Post: tangaroa: Did smallpox suspend manmade global warming in the 1500s?
26 Dec 2008 by Warrior Tang  
Did smallpox suspend manmade global warming in the 1500s? Wild theory of the nonce: did the devastation of the American populations post-contact-with-Europe allow nature to retake enough agricultural land that plants removed enough ...
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