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The whole idea is that if we ever had an emergency situation - say it involved smallpox - we would be able, whatever the location, to augment what states could do.

Von Roebuck

I have read that smallpox is not very communicable at all, and that conditions in which it's spread are usually classified as prolonged, intense contact with an infected individual. Is that true?

Leon Harris

Can you tell me which is the most effective treatment for smallpox?

Leon Harris

There's a lot of people who should not be vaccinated with smallpox vaccine.

Robert Belshe

Persons who live in households who have people with immunosuppressive conditions or taking drugs for cancer, chemotherapy for example, or households who have an infant less than 1 year of age, these kinds of persons should not take smallpox vaccine.

Robert Belshe

We're not talking about polio or smallpox. Those diseases were hard to eradicate. We're talking about nutritional diseases. This should be a no-brainer. Provide access to better food and the disease will go away.

Christopher Wanjek

There is a circumstantial evidence that Iraq, North Korea and Russia have undeclared stocks of smallpox, ... Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox.

Jonathan Tucker

I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.

Mark Sullivan

The (federal administration) acted with great speed around anthrax and smallpox and other hypothetical war agents, but has neglected the most obvious threat, ... The Monster At Our Door – The Global Threat of Avian Flu.

Mike Davis

For example, we found that physicians really don't do a good job being able to distinguish the clinical markers of the rash for chickenpox and smallpox, ... They also had problems with distinguishing a patient's presenting with an attack of botulism from other illnesses.

Stephen Sisson

We're not talking about polio. We're not talking about smallpox. Those diseases were hard to eradicate. We're talking about nutritional diseases. This should be a no-brainer. Provide access to better food, and the disease will go away.

Christopher Wanjek

The president has made it clear that he was obtaining the smallpox vaccine in his position as commander-in-chief.

Jeanie Mamo

Our safety experience with smallpox vaccinations to date is consistent with what we expected overall. We have seen a small number of adverse reactions to the vaccine, mostly minor.

William Winkenwerder

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Edward Jenner

People who were vaccinated many decades ago are probably partially protected, but not completely protected against smallpox.

Robert Belshe