“From January 1 to September 19, 2019, 1,241 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 31 states”(cdc.gov). These outbreaks occurred from travelers who have gone to other countries and brought back this disease (cdc.gov). The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is responsible for protecting...
In the early decades of the 20th century in the U.S., smallpox was a common childhood illness. Now it is virtually unknown here, thanks to vaccines. The same could be said of rubella, polio and other once-common childhood illnesses. These and many other facts supported...
Measles. Smallpox. Polio. Three of the deadliest diseases known to man that, together, have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. Once upon a time, catching any one of these diseases was considered a death sentence as there was no known cure....
Background Smallpox is an intense, infectious illness caused by the variola infection, a part of the class Orthopoxvirus, within the Poxviridae family Virologists have conjectured that it advanced from an African rat poxvirus 10 centuries prior. The title is determined from the Latin word for...