smallpox

(noun)

A fatal, infectious disease that causes fever, a rash, and often death.

Related Terms

  • smallpox epidemic
  • Smallpox Epidemic
  • North American smallpox epidemic

Examples of smallpox in the following topics:

  • Smallpox

    • Smallpox broke out in army camps in 1775, during an epidemic that lasted for most of the war.
    • At the same time, smallpox was also rampant in the Continental Armies that had invaded Canada.
    • This 16th-century Aztec drawing depicts smallpox victims.
    • A new epidemic of smallpox would ravage North America during the Revolutionary War.
    • Discuss the impact of the smallpox epidemic during the American Revolution
  • Smallpox in Boston, 1721

    • The smallpox data set provides a sample of 6,224 individuals from the year 1721 who were exposed to smallpox in Boston. 29 Doctors at the time believed that inoculation, which involves exposing a person to the disease in a controlled form, could reduce the likelihood of death.
    • Write out, in formal notation, the probability a randomly selected person who was not inoculated died from smallpox, and find this probability.
    • Determine the probability that an inoculated person died from smallpox.
    • Table proportions for the smallpox data, computed by dividing each count by the table total, 6224.
  • Double-Stranded DNA Viruses: Pox Viruses

    • The prototype of the poxvirus family is vaccinia virus, which has been used as a successful vaccine to eradicate smallpox virus.
    • The most famous of the poxviruses was smallpox.
    • Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.
    • The last naturally occurring case of smallpox (Variola minor) was diagnosed on October 26, 1977.
    • This is a major distinguishing characteristic of smallpox.
  • Changes in American Indian Life

    • Smallpox proved particularly fatal to American Indian populations.
    • While precise figures are difficult to determine, some historians estimate that at least 30% (and sometimes 50% to 70%) of some American Indian populations died after first contact due to Eurasian smallpox.
    • In 1618–1619, smallpox killed 90% of the American Indians in the area of the Massachusetts Bay.
    • Smallpox epidemics in 1780–1782, and 1837–1838, brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians.
    • By 1832, the federal government established a smallpox vaccination program for American Indians, known as the Indian Vaccination Act.
  • Education and Health

    • Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Program read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated in 1980.
  • Artificial Immunity

    • The first record of artificial immunity was in relation to a disease known as smallpox.
    • Individuals were exposed to a minor strain of smallpox in a controlled environment.
    • Once their bodies built up a natural immunity or resistance to the weakened strain of smallpox, they became much less likely to become infected with the more deadly strains of the disease.
  • General multiplication rule

    • Consider the smallpox data set.
    • Based on the probabilities computed above, does it appear that inoculation is effective at reducing the risk of death from smallpox?
  • Colonialism and the Spread of Diseases

  • Tree diagrams

    • The smallpox data fit this description.
    • This tree diagram splits the smallpox data by inoculation into the yes and no groups with respective marginal probabilities 0.0392 and 0.9608.
  • Inoculation of Live Animals

    • Smallpox was likely the first disease people tried to prevent by purposely inoculating themselves with other infections and was the first disease for which a vaccine was produced.
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