This section is followed by chapters about smallpox, yellow fever, measles and poliomyelitis. These illustrate how the development of vaccines led to the control and even eradication of virus ...

Apart from the smallpox hospital at King's Cross, which had been in existence since 1746, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, London did not possess a fever hospital of any kind ...

Symptoms of smallpox occur during the prodromal period and include headaches, malaise, body aches, vomiting, and high fever. Fever is generally 101 to 104°F; the individual is extremely ill.

The last natural outbreak of smallpox in the U.S. had occurred decades earlier in 1949, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The symptoms include fever, fatigue and ...

Clinical smallpox typically starts with a prodrome of high fever, headache, myalgia, backache, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. An oropharyngeal enanthem is followed by cutaneous eruption of ...

Smallpox, typhoid, and yellow fever were the most dreaded scourges of the 19th century. They seemed to come out of nowhere, and there was no known cure for typhoid or yellow fever. (Vaccination ...