When you think about the social disruption and havoc coronavirus is wreaking on our society right now with a 1% death rate, imagine what smallpox and other European diseases with a 90% death rate did to the survivors of Native American societies. Truly an apocalypse 1000x over

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Smallpox virus as anime humanized character, dubbed as "Sallie Polacraw"

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Joseph Warren & John Adams 1st met at the smallpox hospital in Castle William where Joseph was 1 of the house physicians. John went to be inoculated after a 1764 outbreak. John wrote Abigail of his 1st impression of Joseph. “Warren is a pretty, tall...fair faced young Gentleman.”

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Now, to be fair, the Ellevar Pell had reason to hate the Dominion, since one nobleman essentially gave them smallpox-infested blankets. But that wasn't MY CHARACTER'S FAULT, DON'T ATTACK ME D:

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"Jaskier could have changed the content of that ballad to reflect the truth. He did not. Who would need to hear that the witcher and the poet never saw each other again. That four years later she died of smallpox in Vizima during an epidemic."
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Commissioned after her death at 32 from smallpox, this portrait of Marie Louise Elisabeth, eldest daughter of Louis XV, with her son & fiercely protective parrot, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, is cast with a gloomy, ominous beauty.

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Jessie bout to blast off if ya catch my 17th century era Smallpox.

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in 1694, Queen Mary II, died of smallpox in her home at Kensington Palace. Co-reigning with her husband, William III, she is one of the central figures painted on the ceiling.

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Can true love conquer a disapproving father, a creepy brother, & smallpox?! In today's ep on 17th century diplomat, letter-writer & staunch romantic Dorothy Osborne, the eminent Professor Bernard Capp renews our faith in the power of love! https://t.co/yqfgubByVL

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In the 1870s Hampstead residents afraid of the spread of smallpox opposed the location of the Fever Hospital. They suggested a less populous site (in red on map). In 1885 the Metropolitan Asylum Board moved all smallpox patients to hospital ships on the Thames

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in 1979 The eradication of the smallpox virus was certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.

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"I think your solution is just, but why think? Why not try the experiment?" John Hunter to Edward Jenner, later inventor of smallpox vaccine

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This day 8 April 1704: Death of Greenwich Ranger Henry Sidney, First Earl of Romney from smallpox…

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DON'T MISS: Museum Director Dr. Hicks on what happened when soldiers used syphilitic people for smallpox vaccines https://t.co/8ValPsaowK

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Next week: Join Director Dr. Hicks as he tells a tale of The Great Pox vs SmallPox… https://t.co/8ValPsaowK

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