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3 days ago · In 2009, ground was broken on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, which included plans for stabilizing the ruins. If all goes well, the Renwick Ruin would be open to the public following ...
4 days ago · She died in England in March 1617 under uncertain circumstances, most likely from diseases such as smallpox, pneumonia, or tuberculosis, which were common at the time. Her early death, after enduring significant trauma and cultural erasure, presents a much grimmer reality than the harmonious narrative in Disney's adaptations.
5 days ago · Smallpox is an infectious disease that begins with fever and headache and proceeds to an eruption of the skin that leaves pockmarks. For centuries smallpox was one of the world’s most-dreaded diseases. But it was also one of the first diseases to be controlled by a vaccine, which led to its eradication in 1980.
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- Smallpox is caused by infection with variola major, a virus of the family Poxviridae. A less-virulent form of smallpox, called alastrim, is caused...
- Smallpox was one of the first diseases to be controlled by a vaccine. In 1967 the World Health Organization (WHO) began a global vaccination progra...
- For centuries smallpox was one of the world’s most-dreaded plagues, killing as many as 30 percent of its victims, most of them children.
- People who survived smallpox were permanently immune to a second infection, though they faced a lifetime of disfigurement and, in some cases, blind...
- The last endemic case of smallpox (actually an infection of variola minor) was recorded in Somalia in 1977. No cases were reported from 1977 to 198...
- Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, which is a member of Poxviridae, the same virus family that causes smallpox and cowpox.
2 days ago · Parasite ( Korean : 기생충; RR : Gisaengchung) is a 2019 South Korean dark comedy [8] thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho, who co-wrote and co-produced the film with Han Jin-won. The film, starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon, and Lee Jung-eun, follows a poor family ...
5 days ago · After a smallpox outbreak in 1721, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston noted that the death rate from natural infection was 14%, but the death rate from inoculation was only 2%. Four decades later, Dr. Joseph ...
4 days ago · In July 2022, the WHO declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. At the time of writing this, a total of 97,745 people had been infected and 203 people had died since the start of the outbreak, with most cases confirmed as the less severe clade II variants. A couple of worrying observations and discoveries have since been ...
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2 days ago · Tenet. (film) Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh.
