Word: variola
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...birthplace of vaccination, no fewer than 24 Britons had come down with smallpox by last week. Both patients and health officers were lucky. They had no idea what traveler had carried the disease or where he had come from, but the smallpox proved to be the mild form, variola minor or alastrim. Only ten patients had to be hospitalized; the rest could be treated at home-with, so far, no deaths...
...comparable success in reducing smallpox, especially in its detached eastern portion, even though vaccinations have reached only about 30% of the population. Yet it was from Pakistan that five jet-borne immigrants started Britain's 1962 epidemic of the more virulent and deadly form of the disease, variola major, that claimed 62 victims and caused 24 deaths. Suddenly, Britain, which had abolished compulsory vaccination in 1948, had to scrap its small annual vaccination budget of $650,000 and stage a $3,800,000 crash campaign. Since then, there have been half a dozen outbreaks in Europe. Today, although Britain...