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During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In the early 1950s, an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year. [ 9 ]
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. [7] [11] The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in 1980, [10] making smallpox the only human disease to have been eradicated to date.
A 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-year-old boy admitted to Willard Parker Hospital for treatment of whooping cough just prior to Le Bar's death also came down with smallpox and was diagnosed on March 17. In addition, Carmen Acosta—Ishmael Acosta's wife—was admitted to Willard Parker Hospital on April 6 with a rash and fever, and was diagnosed with smallpox a ...
Smallpox virus was a major cause of death in the 20th century, killing about 300 million people. [129] It has probably killed more humans than any other virus. [ 130 ] In 1966 an agreement was reached by the World Health Assembly (the decision-making body of the World Health Organization ) to start an "intensified smallpox eradication programme ...
Smallpox is the first ... During the twentieth century, ... a global target was agreed for a 90% reduction in measles deaths by 2010 from the 757,000 deaths in 2000 ...
In Haida Gwaii, following the 1862 epidemic, over nineteen villages diminished to four by the early 20th century. [7] The Tsilhqotʼin people resisted when a wagon road began to be built through their territory without permission, resulting in the Chilcotin War. One of the foremen of the road-building project threatened the Tsilhqotʼin with ...
Mexico's native population was one of the first to experience a smallpox epidemic, where many succumbed to the disease. In 1520, the first wave of smallpox killed 5–8 million people. From 1545 to 1576, up to 17 million people died from smallpox. This large amount of deaths in the second wave are thought to be the result of hemorrhagic fevers. [5]
After the epidemic, the Hudson Bay Company implemented a territory wide vaccination program which further reduced smallpox deaths. Unfortunately, as people entered communities to vaccinate against smallpox, they brought with them other diseases that kept mortality rates high. [2] The epidemic altered power structures of impacted nations.