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... i%- . £il €& 3 g b % : Science throws lifeline to killer smallpox THE potency of smallpox is still vivid inlivingmemory:thelastglobalepidemic, in 1967, killed more than two million people. Smallpox was eradicated from the world 15 years 2go, after a 13-year ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1993
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... and African kings rope, smallpox killchs in the 18th cene House of Stuart, apsburg line of suc; many generations, pandemic after the f 1871. facilitated the coney :l’tll:'(e;:h. Jenner, a Gloucesepared the first eft smallpox, it took e the disease and ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1993
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Effective

... open certain veins, then poured in live smallpox virus they carried in a nut shell. The patients stayed in bed for a couple f days, felt poorly for a few days more, then fully recovered and were immune from smallpox. When she returned to England, Lady Mary ...

SKY MOVIES

... Blackfoot Indians are engulfed by the deadly onslaught of smallpox. In order to save his people, Winterhawk sets off to the white men in Montana laden with furs and pelts he intends to trade for the smallpox remedy. On arrival his companions are murdered and ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1989
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

100 Years Ago

... of about 12 members. @ All members of the Northumberland county constabulary have been vaccinated against the threatened smallpox epidemic by instructions of headquarters. ...

Published: Friday 12 March 1993
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 47 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

75 Years Ago 100 Years A'go'i

... 75 Years Ago 100 Years A'go'i B Two more cases of smallpox in South Shields were notified by the Medical Officer of Health. They followed three carlier cases in the month. O The Jarrow Permanent Society reported that it was in a thoroughly sound position ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1993
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LETTERS By Irene Thompson

... her work and, despite vehement opposition from the medical establishment and the Church, lived to see the death rate from smallpox decrease from 30 per cent totwo per cent. Yet her discovery was attributed to Edward Jenner who did the same experiment almost ...

LSD trip B A vigilante who took a teenage drugs pusher on a 30-minute terror ride to punish him for

... back of her car when thieves stole * in High Wycombe, Bucks.” Smallpox poser B Hundreds of top virologists failed to agree at a Glasgow conference on whether the last remaining traces of smallpox should be killed off. Happy birthday O Peter West, sports commen- ...

Published: Thursday 12 August 1993
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 407 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Gun amnesty is off target

... the two virus stocks seems overwhelming. Yet scientists are divided. Two large groups continue to be vaccinated against smallpox. They are recruits to the American and Russian armed forces, immunised as a precautionary measure against a smalipox biological ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1995
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

SKY NEWS

... Broderick, Helen Hunt. 6.00 WINTERHAWK (1976): In the 1840’s the Blackfoot Indians are engulfed by the deadly onslaught of smallpox. R R Starring Michael Dante. 8.00 GRANDVIEW U.S.A. (1984): In the small, midwest town of Grandview, three young people from ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1989
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

How to get there

... certainly be in a poor position to cope with a pox virus that may evolve to fill the biological niche once occupied by smallpox”. Smallpox was one of the most devastating diseases, regularly kiiling up to 600,000 people each year in 18thcentury Europe. The ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1993
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1734 | Page: 10 | Tags: none