Field investigation of an outbreak of smallpox at Bawku, Ghana: May-October, 1967

The History of Smallpox Epidemics in Sri Lanka: Humanity’s Triumph over a Global Scourge · November 25, 2020 · Categories: Volume 1 Issue 1 · T. M. Zameer-Careem · View Fullscreen · Global Narratives, Local Realities: Probing Issues of Justice through Theatre Translation as Renarration

Jim Green, Librarian · The most dreaded disease in Colonial America was not the black death but smallpox. It came with the first settlers, some of whom had acquired immunity in Europe, and it devastated indigenous peoples, who had none. The mortality rate in some Native communities approached ...

May 1, 2009 - Download Citation | On May 1, 2009, William H Schneider published Smallpox in Africa during Colonial Rule | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Smallpox is an infectious disease caused by the variola virus. The disease arrived in what is now Canada with French settlers in the early 17th century. Indigen...

The supposed apathy shown towards diphtheria by certain sections of the British public was largely overcome by the 1960s – or, at least, immunisation rates had improved to such an extent that the Ministry of Health was no longer concerned about widespread diphtheria epidemics.

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In the first years of the Revolutionary War, George Washington and his Continental Army faced a threat that proved deadlier than the British: a smallpox epidemic, lasting from 1775-1782.

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May 13, 2024 - Cape Town’s colonial history is one of conflict, disease, slavery, and racism but also of opportunity, hope, and emancipation.

Today’s COVID-19 pandemic offers many similarities with previous pandemics hitting our country. In particular, the smallpox epidemics during the 1700s threatened the lives of multitudes and created panic and fear in the society, similar to the ...

Edward Jenner's work on smallpox, published in 1797, was the first time that any scientific findings about vaccination were presented to the wider medical community.

Smallpox and its eradication was published by WHO in 1988 (ISBN: 92 4 156110 6). It contains illustrative material both from WHO and from other published sources, as indicated. In the case of the latter, the copyright holders granted WHO permission to reproduce their material in this book · ...

Prisoners and abandoned children had live smallpox virus, in the form of pus, inserted under their skin. They survived and several months later were exposed to the disease, which none of them contracted. Variolation was then used across western Europe. In April 1789, 15 months after the First Fleet arrived to establish a penal colony ...

November 20, 2024 - The mpox outbreak in Ghana is a part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. As opposed to its West African neighbours, Ghana had no endemic presence of mpox, only experiencing it during the 2022 outbreak.

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The British give smallpox-contaminated blankets to Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware) communities—an action sanctioned by the British officers Sir Jeffery Amherst and his replacement, General Thomas Gage · “Out of our regard to them … we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the ...

October 19, 2024 - Three Moravian missionaries led ... brought smallpox from Denmark and a large proportion of the native population died over the next few years. The death of Egede's wife prompted his return to Denmark, with his son Paul left in charge of the settlement. The Danish merchant Jacob Severin was granted authority over the colony from 1734 ...

The history of smallpox, from its probable origin 3000 to 6000 years ago to its worldwide eradication in 1978, is a fascinating story. A feared infect…