This patient had been admitted for infectious hepatitis by transfer from another hospital on the same day as the original smallpox patient. An infant born in the hospital on R - 2 and released on ...

The virus was so prevalent and lethal that in some societies, parents didn't name their children until they had survived a bout with the virus. Smallpox was the single deadliest disease during the ...

Smallpox is the only disease ever to be eradicated ... a biology professor at Villanova University. "The visions of children using iron lungs to survive are permanently ingrained in our history ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...