Smallpox in a sentence as a noun

That's how we drove smallpox to extinction in the wild.

Now, they're as widespread as smallpox and polio.

These practices were once as widespread as smallpox and polio.

It would be a nice visual aid for explaining how smallpox was eradicated.

Also penicillin and the smallpox vaccine, the internet - but you know, whatever...

By 1897, smallpox had largely been eliminated from the United States.

To take one example, the smallpox vaccine was initially considered unnatural, and an affront to God[1].

[5] To eradicate smallpox, each outbreak had to be stopped from spreading, by isolation of cases and vaccination of everyone who lived close by.

Access to those viruses is pretty well controlled though: you can get a stern letter from the CDC if you try to order DNA that looks like smallpox or RNA that looks like the 1918 Spanish flu.

>>We eradicated smallpox for everyone, without distinction between rulers and ruled.

That's the difference!You may want to familiarize yourself with the history of smallpox eradication before continuing this debate.

We can form hypotheses, test those hypotheses rigorously, and perhaps make some lineages of harmful microorganisms as extinct in the wild as the smallpox virus and rinderpest virus now are.

[66] In Northern Europe a number of countries had eliminated smallpox by 1900, and by 1914, the incidence in most industrialized countries had decreased to comparatively low levels..."

The question is unnecessarily emotional and anthropomorphizes smallpox - smallpox hates that.

You know, so that your now-legal melamine-tainted, e. coli infested, beef-that's-really-horsemeat isn't, say, someone's science-project hydrogen bomb or smallpox aerosol.

Smallpox definitions

noun

a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

See also: variola