Word: smallpox
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Intact samples of both smallpox and several varieties of viral hemorrhagic fever—including the Ebola virus—require a BSL-4 laboratory for study...
...until 1537, Mann said, that, after considerable debate both ways, Pope Paul III got around to proclaiming that "Indians themselves indeed are true men" and should not be "deprived of their liberty." In the intervening 18 years roughly a third of Mexico's 25 million indigenous population died of smallpox the Europeans brought with them, and the Spanish had enslaved most of the remaining six million able-bodied men. And that's not counting the 100,000 Aztecs Cortes killed at Tenochtitlan alone...
...that, due to historical inequalities, suffers from preventable disease. Many people are shocked to learn that there are still 128,260 people in the world today who are going or have gone to Yale. Although you may ask yourself, “Wait, I thought that was eradicated, like smallpox?” the sad truth is, no, the disease commonly known as “Yale” still haunts us today. In fact, it is estimated that next year 1,300 other people will contract Yale even though they could make lifestyle choices now to prevent this misadventure...
...Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and a founding member of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a nonprofit group based in Atlanta, Ga. At the CDC, he devised the concept of “containment vaccination,” which contributed greatly to the eradication of smallpox. Fauci serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His work has focused primarily on the fight against HIV and AIDS. Among other contributions, Fauci’s research proved that HIV is never latent in infected patients. Former U.S. Surgeon General Julius B. Richmond...
...post who always wanted a daughter: the baby sitter paints a room in her home pink and smiles when the baby calls her Mama, even when Mother is in the room. It is Laura Richardson's dad, a 68-year-old pediatrician, wondering whether he should get smallpox and anthrax vaccines, so that if his kids were in trouble he could get on a plane and help them. "I thought I could go over if one of my children was horribly maimed or something like that," he says...