Although thousands of Barbadians died from yellow fever and smallpox , Quakers were particularly hard hit.
Polio will be the second disease after smallpox to be eradicated.
There now seems a real prospect that, like smallpox , polio may be eradicated entirely from the world.
This has been illustrated by the elimination of other viral infections such as smallpox .
Terrorists can bring back diseases like smallpox and they can even create their own.
The process induced cowpox, a mild viral disease that conferred immunity to smallpox .
Both anthrax and smallpox vaccines have been in use for a long time, but there are few other similarities between them.
Disease was rampant and smallpox , typhus, typhoid and dysentery made death familiar.
Malnutrition was rife, as were diseases such as tuberculosis and smallpox .
There have been few articles on the risks of smallpox or of the vaccine in the popular media.