It's abit smaller and more poxy.
They are using a smallpox germ that is weak.
It can strike ANYWHERE, but manly before it was announced that the world was free of smallpox it was in India,China,And Europe
Globally across the world, yes. Although, there could still be smallpox virus but frozen somewhere across the world.
yes it was
After the eradication of smallpox, the last samples of smallpox were kept for academic research in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US and State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology in Russia. Both these institutions are under heavy guard to avoid the possibility of the theft of the samples for biological warfare.
Smallpox originated in "the Old World" (Eurasia and Africa) and was brought to "the New World" (the Americas) by Europeans. So, basically, no. US troops didn't "bring smallpox to Europe" because it was already there.
There is nowhere in the world today where one could be infected with smallpox. Smallpox was declared officially eradicated May 8 1980. Before 1980, it was possible to be infected while in the UK. In fact, Edward Jenner, the man who discovered the smallpox vaccine, was born in Berkeley, England in 1749. All information is courtesy of <i>Smallpox Vaccine: Escape from a Deadly Scourge</i>, which can be found at http://22484930.nhd.weebly.com/index.html.
smallpox, polio
Only over 100,000 people world wide has ever survived smallpox from 1942 to 2007.
They had no immunity. It was an old world disease.
In the 1960's
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