Sentence examples for forms of smallpox from inspiring English sources

Scientists have created a highly lethal virus in an effort to develop stronger protections against the threat of virulent forms of smallpox that terrorists might use.

There were two clinical forms of smallpox.

Consideration of the clinical features and severity of smallpox is important from the standpoint of mathematical transmission modeling because (1) the clinical features affect the ease of diagnosis (and thus of case identification), (2) more severe forms of smallpox may result in more transmission, (3) vaccinated individuals may develop less severe disease.

Scenario b was motivated by the possibility that individuals with severe forms of smallpox may be more difficult to diagnose, and thus remain infectious in the community longer (despite the much greater degree of illness of such patients), or that such patients may be more infectious.

The procedure typically caused a milder form of smallpox and conferred lifelong immunity.

No one knows why variolation works, but it produces a mild form of smallpox with a fatality rate of only 1percentt instead of 30percentt.

They conclude that two infants and a young woman, none of whom had been vaccinated, died from a rare hemorrhagic form of smallpox.

Historical figures, including Cotton Mather, Mary Wortley Montagu, and Voltaire, championed the practice of variolation, in which individuals were infected with a mild form of smallpox to protect them from a more severe version of the disease.

Most accounts say that Lincoln had varioloid, the milder form of smallpox, but recent research suggests that he actually had a more serious strain and that his life was in very real danger.

Senator Bill Frist's Aug. 9 Op-Ed article, "Deciding Who Is to Be Protected Against Smallpox," which calls for giving all Americans the option to receive the vaccination against smallpox, does not mention that vaccinia virus -- the weakened form of smallpox in current vaccines -- spreads readily from vaccinees to others through contact with the vaccination lesion.

The ringleader looked at me like I had a rare form of smallpox for a second and then said, "You can go now".