Sentence examples for a smallpox outbreak from inspiring English sources

Smallpox vaccine, they say, should be used only in the event of a smallpox outbreak.

Most of the local Indians were killed during a smallpox outbreak in 1838.

This year, federal and private officials met to act out how the government would cope with a smallpox outbreak.

They judged that cost acceptable because health care workers would come in close contact with sick people during a smallpox outbreak, making them unusually vulnerable.

And he thinks that most hospitals in the state are unprepared to do mass inoculations if there is a smallpox outbreak.

Tomorrow, New York health officials will submit a plan for responding to a smallpox outbreak, said the city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden.

Also, rapid confirmation of nonvariola etiology can help avert public panic, a potential problem in a suspected smallpox outbreak and a probable intended consequence of a terrorist attack.

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Bioterrorism experts are hotly debating a preliminary report that a 1971 smallpox outbreak in the former Soviet Union was triggered by a test of a secret bioweapon.

For example, an exercise dealing with a simulated smallpox outbreak that unfolds over time might involve a discussion period dealing with movement restrictions in which participants are asked one or more questions such as, "Should schools be closed at this point?" Participants should then be given a limited amount of time to discuss this issue and make a decision.

The technique, long practiced in China and Africa, had been introduced in the colonies by the Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who learned about it from his African slave, Onesimus, and convinced a Boston doctor to try it during a local smallpox outbreak in 1721.

That is certainly the plan, but the issue has been complicated by recent revelations that a 1971 smallpox outbreak near the Aral Sea may have been triggered by open-air testing of a Russian smallpox weapon.